Transmission

Resources

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  Mother-to-baby transmission

  HIV can be transmitted from an HIV-positive woman to her child either during pregnancy, or during labour and delivery, or by breast-feeding. In Europe and...

  From: Factsheets

  Information level Level 2
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  Oral sex

  Doctors and researchers aren't quite sure how many people have got HIV from oral sex. Some think hardly anybody has been infected with HIV from...

  From: Factsheets

  Information level Level 2
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  Infectiousness

  If you have HIV, there's a chance that you could pass it on to somebody else. HIV is present in potentially infectious quantities in blood, semen, and...

  From: Factsheets

  Information level Level 2
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  Kidney dialysis equipment

  A case has been reported from Colombia of the infection of at least nine patients who seroconverted within a four-month period during 1992 after kidney...

  From: HIV transmission & testing

  Information level Level 4
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  HIV transmission

  There are many psychological, interpersonal, economic and social factors that affect an individual’s vulnerability to HIV infection. However, HIV transmission is also always a biological...

  From: HIV transmission & testing

  Information level Level 4
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  HIV transmission

  HIV is present in the blood, breastmilk, and the semen, vaginal fluids or anal mucus of infected people, and can only be passed on to another...

  From: namlife.org

  Information level Level 2

Features

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  Love is a danger

  American researchers have reported that gay men in the US are more likely to contract HIV from their main sexual partner than from casual sex.  What are the...

  From: HIV treatment update

  Information level Level 3

Aidsmap news

• Sexual risk behaviour doesn’t increase in injecting drug users who start HIV treatment

  19 August 2010 | Michael Carter

• Immigrants are more risk of HIV in their host country than back at home

  22 July 2010 | Gus Cairns

• HIV transmission risk during anal sex 18 times higher than during vaginal sex

  28 June 2010 | Roger Pebody

• No mother-to-child HIV transmissions in Denmark since 2000 when treatment guidelines followed

  06 April 2010 | Michael Carter

• High rate of mother-to-child HIV transmission in St Petersburg

  31 March 2010 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Viral load in early HIV infection predicted by that of transmitting partner

  08 March 2010 | Michael Carter

• Gay men’s risk of acquiring HIV is similar to the pre-HAART era despite widespread use of HAART

  16 February 2010 | Roger Pebody

• Flares of genital ulcer disease common in women starting HIV treatment, could temporarily increase infectiousness

  21 August 2009 | Michael Carter

• Maternal HIV infection during pregnancy or breastfeeding poses substantial transmission risk for infants

  20 August 2009 | Michael Carter

More news

News selected from other sources

• The Lancet: HIV in people who use drugs

  31 July 2010

• Africa: Killer Blood Transfusions Targeted in Fight Against HIV

  19 July 2010