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How do you contract HIV?

This is how you can contract HIV.

In 95% of cases, HIV is transmitted through unsafe sexual contact.

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HIV can be found in blood, semen and pre-cum, vaginal fluid and breast milk. If these body fluids come into contact with a person's bloodstream or mucous membranes, there is a risk of HIV transmission. This can be the mucous membranes in the mouth, anus, vagina and on the penis. This means that you can contract HIV in the following situations:

  • In case of unsafe sexual contact
  • When injecting drugs with used needles or syringes

  • As a baby of an HIV-positive mother

  • Through a blood transfusion

  • When pricking a needle/syringe with HIV-infected blood

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You will not get HIV from this.

  • Skin contact. Feel free to shake hands and hug each other. HIV cannot penetrate through the skin. Not even if your skin comes into contact with a wound from someone with HIV. Even wounds on each other pose no risk. For HIV to stand a chance, there must be contact between two fresh, large, open wounds from which blood flows.

  • Kissing and French kissing. HIV cannot be transmitted through saliva.

  • The toilet seat or other utensils. The virus cannot continue to live outside the body, so also not on cups, cutlery, bed linen.

  • Via fitness equipment/in the gym. HIV is not transmitted through sweat. HIV also does not survive in a blood spatter.

  • Through dental tools. A dentist serves every customer with clean tools.

  • Through exhalation. HIV does not travel through air.

  • Through coughing and sneezing. HIV does not travel through air and cannot be transmitted through saliva.

  • Provide first aid. If you observe normal hygiene, nothing can happen. Always be careful with blood.

  • By insects. The amount of blood a mosquito sucks is too small to infect anyone else. Moreover, HIV cannot survive in the blood that a mosquito sucks.

  • Through foods.

  • Through swimming water and saunas. HIV does not survive outside the body and in water.

Need help?

If you yourself or those around you come into contact with HIV or AIDS, this can raise many questions. So feel free to call us if you want to know more quickly, that's what we're here for. Our phone number: +599 9 5 677 566

What is unprotected sex?

  • Vaginal sex without a condom (penis in vagina). Even without ejaculation there is a risk of HIV because the virus is present in pre-cum and vaginal fluid.

  • Anal sex without a condom (penis in anus). Even without ejaculation there is a risk of HIV because the virus is present in pre-cum.

  • Oral sex (cunnilingus, blowjob, anus licking), in which semen or (menstrual) blood enters the mouth.

    If no sperm or (menstrual) blood enters the mouth (only pre-cum / vaginal fluid) there is no chance of HIV transmission. The saliva in the mouth reduces the effect of HIV, which occurs much less in pre-cum and vaginal fluid than in semen and blood.

  • Using sex toys (such as a dildo) together without using a new condom in the meantime or without  to clean in between.

Can you have children if you have HIV?

As an HIV-positive man or woman, you can have children without HIV.

If you take the medication properly and the virus has been suppressed, you cannot pass it on to someone else. So not to your partner and not to your baby if you get pregnant. We call a suppressed virus undetectable. Undetectable = Untransmissable. In other words: suppressed virus in your body = no chance of infecting someone else through, for example, sexual contact or during pregnancy.

A woman with HIV who takes her tablet every day and who has a suppressed virus can become pregnant and give birth normally. The chance of HIV in the baby is then actually 0.

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