Transmission
This virus cannot be spread through hugging, shaking hands, or sharing drinks.
What is HIV?
HIV can be spread through casual contact like hugging, sharing utensils, or using the same toilet seat.
What is Myth?
This daily medication can reduce the risk of getting HIV by over 90% when taken consistently.
What is PrEP?
This is the only way to know for sure if you have HIV or another STI.
What is getting tested?
This medical specialist studies blood, blood disorders, and the organs that produce blood cells.
What is a hematologist?
This blood-borne infection can be transmitted through sharing needles or syringes.
What is Hepatitis C?
A person can have HIV or another STI and look completely healthy.
What is a fact?
This protective barrier method reduces the risk of transmitting HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
What are condoms?
This term describes the time after infection when a test may not yet detect HIV.
What is the window period?
This component of blood helps fight infections.
What are white blood cells?
This type of contact creates the highest risk for transmitting HIV.
What is unprotected sexual contact or needle sharing?
If someone is on PrEP and takes it consistently, it can reduce their risk of getting HIV by over 90%.
What is a fact?
This vaccine can prevent infection with Hepatitis B.
What is the Hepatitis B vaccine?
The CDC recommends that sexually active adults get tested for HIV at least this often.
What is at least once a year?
This liquid portion of blood carries nutrients, hormones, and waste products throughout the body.
What is plasma?
If a person living with HIV has an undetectable viral load, this is their risk of sexually transmitting the virus.
What is no risk?
You can tell if someone has a blood-borne infection just by looking at them.
What is a myth?
This medication can be taken within 72 hours after potential exposure to HIV to reduce the risk of infection.
What is PEP (Post-Exposure Prophylaxis)?
If a person living with HIV takes medication consistently and reaches an undetectable viral load, this is their risk of sexually transmitting HIV.
What is zero?
This type of blood cell carries oxygen throughout the body using a protein called hemoglobin.
What are red blood cells?
This is the term used to describe the time after infection when a test may not yet detect the virus.
What is the window period?
If a person living with HIV has an undetectable viral load, they cannot sexually transmit the virus.
What is a fact?
This strategy involves not sharing needles, syringes, or other injection equipment to prevent blood-to-blood transmission.
What is harm reduction?
This public health principle states that people who are undetectable cannot sexually transmit HIV.
What is U = U?
(Undetectable = Untransmittable)
This term describes the presence of a virus in the bloodstream, which can increase the risk of transmission.
What is viral load?