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HIV Infection and AIDS

What are the causes?

HIV can be transmitted by unprotected sexual intercourse, both homosexual and heterosexual, by the administration of contaminated blood products and by contact with infected needles.

HIV infected women can also pass the infection to their unborn children, this may occur while the baby is in utero, at the time of delivery, or transmitted by breast milk.

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Medical text written November 1995 by Dr J Evans, Paediatric HIV Team, St Mary's Hospital, London UK. Last reviewed December 2004 by Dr M Sharland, Consultant Paediatrician in Paediatric Infectious diseases and HIV, St George's Hospital, London, UK.

 

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