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HIV

What to Watch for
  • Symptoms show up several months to several years after contact with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
  • Can be present for many years with no symptoms.
  • Unexplained weight loss or tiredness.
  • Flu-like feelings that don’t go away.
  • Diarrhea.
  • White spots in mouth.
  • In women, yeast infections that don’t go away.

 
How You Get It
  • Spread during vaginal or anal sex with someone who has HIV.
  • Spread by sharing needles to inject drugs, or for any other reason.
  • Spread by contact with infected blood.

 
If you Don't Get Treated
  • You can give HIV to your sex partner(s) or someone you share a needle with.
  • HIV cannot be cured. Can cause illness and death.
  • A mother with HIV can give it to her baby in the womb, during birth, or while breastfeeding.