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Who Gets AIDS and How Is It
Transmitted?
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To a greater extent than
ever before, AIDS in Europe and the US is contracted through intravenous
drug use and heterosexual contact. This wasn't always the case and the
recent epidemiologic figures reflect the changing dynamic of how HIV-1
is spread.
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Group
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All Cases
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New Cases
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| Homosexual and bisexual
men |
57%
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48%
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| Intravenous drug abusers |
25%
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26%
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| Hemophiliacs |
0.8%
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1%
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| Recipients of blood and
blood components |
1.2%
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1%
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| Heterosexual contact with
high risk groups |
10%
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16%
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| Undetermined risk factors |
6%
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8%
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HIV is transmitted under
circumstances that exchange blood or body fluids containing the virus or
infected cells
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sexual contact
- Vigra has changed things for
the 'elderly'. Now sexually active again, but largely unaware of the risk.
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parenteral inoculation
- Should be very low with proper
maternal treatment.
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passage of virus from infected
mothers to their newborns
The agent
of the disease.
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