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HIV Quick Facts
HIV is a disease that:
- Is caused by a blood borne virus (known as HIV)
- Reduces the body’s ability to fight infections
- Often leads to AIDS, which may result in death
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How is HIV transmitted?
- Through unprotected sex with an infected person
- Through sharing contaminated needles
- From infected mother to baby during pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding
- Through direct exposure to infected blood or blood products
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How is HIV NOT transmitted?
- Through casual contact, such as sharing glasses, holding hands or shaking hands
- Through normal work place environments
- Through eating in restaurants, insect bites, coughs or sneezes, perspiration, telephones or toilets
- It is not an airborne virus
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What rights do persons with HIV/AIDS have?
- They cannot be discriminated against
- In employment
- In housing, public accommodations or education
- In delivery of services
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Who should take precautions?
- Everyone should evaluate their private lives and use precautions to reduce the likelihood of exposure to HIV
- At work, those who handle blood or blood products should be knowledgeable of and follow established safety procedures known as universal precautions
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Call 1-800-551-2728 for more information…
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