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Question
What are the various routes by which transmission of human immunodeficiency virus takes place?
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Solution 1
HIV is transmitted generally by:
- Sexual contact with an infected person.
- Use of contaminated needles or syringes, especially in the case of intravenous drug abusers.
- From an infected mother to her child through the placenta, during birth, or through breastfeeding.
Solution 2
- Unprotected sexual contact with an infected person.
- Transfusion of blood from a healthy person to an infected person.
- Sharing infected needles and syringes.
- From an infected mother to a child through the placenta.
- Use of contaminated razors.
- Organ transplantation
- Artificial insemination
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