AIDS
Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome.
Deadly disease.
AIDS is an infectious disease spread by the Human
Immunodeficiency Virus
(HIV).
The virus can be transmitted through the following human liquids:
blood, sperm,
pre-spermatic liquid, vaginal secretions, mother's milk.
You are infected when one of these liquids, infected by HIV, gets into
your bloodstream.
The transmission of HIV infected liquid from person to person can
occur in several ways: by open wounds, by punctures with infected
needles (as for heroin addicts who share their syringes), or from a
mother to her baby.
AIDS is above all a sexually
transmitted disease
because most of the infections (roughly 85 per cent) occur through sexual
intercourse.
During a sexual intercourse the virus transmission from one person to
the other can occur through small
wounds and micro-lesions
(even invisible to the naked eye) of the vagina, the anus, the penis and
the mouth, or through
the mucus membranes in the penis, vagina, anus and mouth.
You can get infected through any
kind of sexual intercourse:
straight, gay, vaginal, oral, anal.
It's not "a certain kind of people" (gays, prostitutes and their
customers, etc.) who gets ill. The person who gets ill is the one who
adopts a risky sexual behaviour.
It's risky every
kind of sexual intercourse not protected by a properly used condom.
The only safe partner is the HIV-negative one whose fidelity is certain.
You can get
infected even by one single intercourse.
You can enjoy sex
in many ways by your partner's body, even without direct genitals to
genitals contact: but if you go for any kind of sexual intercourse (vaginal,
oral, anal) outside a constant and absolutely faithful couple you
must always use a condom.