What happens after a person gets HIV?
After being infected withHIV, your body works hard to attack the virus. With your body fighting, the virus can’t make as many copies of itself. Even though you still have HIV, you’ll begin to look well and feel well again. The usual blood tests will be normal.
HIV can only be passed from person to person through body fluids, such blood, semen and vaginal fluid. Children born to infected mothers can also become infected during pregnancy. The most common waysHIV is passed are:
By having unprotected anal, vaginal or oral sex with an infected person.
By sharing needles and syringes for injecting drugs with an infected person.