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10/01/2021 5:02 pm
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What is AIDS? How does a person get affected with HIV?
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10/01/2021 5:03 pm
AIDS is Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome, it is caused due to HIV - human immuno deficiency virus. This virus reduces the immunity of human body. Therefore if any microbe enters the body of a person it causes disease killing the person.
The virus is transmitted from infected person to other person by any of the following way:
(a) Blood transfusion.
(b) From mother (infected) to baby in the womb.
(c) From mother’s milk to lactating baby.
(d) By sexual contact.
(e) Sharing of needle with an infected person.