What is HIV ?
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. People who have HIV in their bodies have HIV infection.

"People may not know they have it"
• HIV is a disease with many stages. People with HIV may have no symptoms or many serious symptoms.
•people can have HIV for many years without feeling or looking sick. They may not even know they have HIV. But they can still pass the virus on to others.

"HIV hurts the body"

•over time, HIV damages the body's immune system. The immune system protects the body from disease.
•when the immune system gets very weak, other diseases and infections can enter body. This stage of HIV is called AIDS.

How do people get HIV?
HIV lives in semen, vaginal fluids, blood and breast milk of a person with HIV. It can be passed from one person to another through these infected fluids.

HIV can be passed:
* during vaginal, oral or anal sex
* while sharing needles and equipment to. inject drugs
* by needles used for tatoos or piercing or to inject vitamins or steriods
*from mother to her baby during pregnancy, child birth or breastfeeding
*from needle-stick injuries to health workers caring for people with HIV

HIV is not passed by:
* donating blood
*hugging, dry kissing or sharing food
* telephones, toilet seat, towels or eating utensils
* tears, saliva, sweat or urine
* mosquitoes or other insects

N.B: some people got HIV from infected blood transfusions. Now the blood supply in the country is tested. So the chances of getting HIv through this way are very, very small

Its best to get tested, I only don't know how often to get tested, especially when one has just one sexual partner.though I trust my man

ajuwarhodes:
Its best to get tested, I only don't know how often to get tested, especially when one has just one sexual partner.though I trust my man

it is adviceable to get tested every 3 months, especially after any risky behavior