Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (Developed)

[SupHobagg]

right...i agree. the only thing is in school they fear-monger a LOT. all i was saying. hope your 2010's going well

[SupHobagg]

what I think is odd, not in this particular set of videos..but in all of the things they teach in supposed "sex-ed" in school and the general literature is that..if you're in a monagomous relationship and have sex with that 1 partner..one of you has to be infected before either of you will ever get it. why is that?

[AIDSvideos]

It's because we're talking about viral (HIV, herpes, HPV) and bacterial (syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia) infections. In the modern world, viruses and bacteria don't spontaneously arise out of nowhere; you have to contract them (become infected) by being exposed to them. If two people have never been exposed to any of those things are mutually monogamous, they will not become infected by having sex with each other. (Of course, if one cheats or shares needles, they can contract something.)

[DJINEVIL2323]

Can I look up the peer-reviewed papers on this subject?

because this sems like opinion, and not scientific.

[AIDSvideos]

HIV causes AIDS. See: Ho et al, "Pathogenesis of infection with human immunodeficiency virus," N Engl J Med 1987;317(5):278-86. Fauci AS, "Multifactorial nature of human immunodeficiency virus disease: implications for therapy." Science 1993a;262(3136):1011-8. Greene WC, "AIDS and the immune system," Sci Am 1993;269(3):98-105. Levy, "Pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus infection," Microbiol Rev 1993;57(1):183-289. Weiss RA, "How does HIV cause AIDS?" Science 1993;260(5112):1273-9.