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What is HIV?
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first reported in the USA in 1981. Today the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, is present in virtually every country in the world and continues to spread faster than international efforts to stop it. Every day an estimated 7500 adults and 1000 children across the world become infected.
In the UK, 31,001 people are reported to have been infected with HIV up to December 1997. In the same period, there have been 15,074 diagnosed with AIDS, of whom 10,977 have died.
(Source: AIDS/HIV Quarterly Surveillance Tables, February 1998, No 38: 97/4 PHLS AIDS Centre, Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health.)
How is HIV transmitted?
HIV is a virus that can damage the body's defence system so that it cannot easily fight off certain infections. Once HIV infection is established it stays in the body for life. If someone with HIV goes on to get certain illnesses, they are said to have AIDS.
In the UK there are three main ways in which HIV can be passed on:
- by having penetrative sex without a condom with someone who has HIV;
- by using needles, syringes or other drug-injecting equipment that are infected with HIV;
- from a woman with HIV to her baby during pregnancy, at birth or through breast-feeding.
Worldwide, the most common way of becoming infected is by sex between men and women. In the UK, most new infections are amongst gay and bisexual men, although the rate of HIV infection amongst heterosexual men and women is rising.
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