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Question
What are the various routes by which transmission of the human immuno deficiency virus takes place?
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Solution
- Unprotected sexual contact with an infected person.
- Transfusion of blood from a healthy 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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