HSCI 1120 Lecture Notes - Aids, Immunodeficiency, Non-Penetrative Sex
Document Summary
12, 000 bc people are infected in hiv and 25% of them are unaware. Point-of-care rapid hiv test takes about 1 minute to provide diagnosis. Hiv human immune deficiency virus; the virus that causes aids. Infected women to baby during pregnancy or childbirth. Diagnosis: blood test (rapid tests now available!) High risk: ana or vaginal sex no condom, sharing needles, sharing sex toys. Low risk: oral sex without a barrier, anal or vaginal sex with a condom, injection using a cleaned or new needle. No risk: wet or dry kissing, mutual masturbation, ejaculation on unbroken skin. Hiv/aids: women, children, and ethnic minorities in canada. Historically men accounted for most cases in canada. Now over 25% of infected are women, almost half under 30 years of age: more women diagnosed with hiv than man. Proportion of aboriginal women with aids almost twice as high as non- Aboriginal population also tend to get infected at a younger age.
