If you answer yes to any of these questions you are at RISK for getting HIV:
- Have you ever had unprotected vaginal, anal or oral sex?
- Have you ever exchanged sex for drugs or money?
- Have you ever been diagnosed or treated for Hepatitis B, Tuberculosis, or any sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)?
- Have you ever injected any drugs and shared needles, syringes or works with someone?
- Have you ever had sex with anyone who could answer yes to any of these questions?
Know your HIV status. Know your partner's HIV status. Protect your baby.
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Early intervention is the key to prevention
HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
AIDS - Acquired Immune Defficiency Virus
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HIV?
- HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
- HIV is 100% preventable.
- Abstinence is the only way to prevent HIV with 100% certainty.
- Everyone should know their HIV status.
- HIV does not discriminate.
- HIV prevalence in the heterosexual population is increasing.
- Young women, especially young black women, are the fastest growing group to get HIV.
FACTS
- There is no cure for HIV or AIDS.
- HIV is a serious health threat to everyone, everywhere.
- It is estimated that 135,000 Floridians are infected with HIV.
- Florida is ranked first in the coutry for newly reported HIV cases (N=5,775).
- Women are most likely to be infected through heterosexual sex (84%).
- Florida ranks second (N=9), behind New Yourk (N=10, in the number of perinatally acquired HIV infections born in 2009.
- In Florida six babies are known to be infected in 2010.
- In Florida 19% of new HIV infections are among persons under the age of 25.
Source: Florida Department of Health, Bureau of HIV/AIDS (12/31/10).