He serves about 100 patients in the area, but qualifies that by saying many area AIDS patients travel elsewhere for treatment to ensure confidentiality. The task force presently serves about 80 men and 25 women, as well as one baby who has tested negative but still may develop the disease after it begins using its own antibodies instead of its mother s, Cremeans said. To become infected with HIV, the virus must get into your blood through unprotected sexual contact, sharing needles or tattooing or piercing using nonsterile needles. HIV is not transmitted through hugging, kissing, massage, shaking hands, living in the same house with someone who is HIV positive or insect bites, according to the Web site hivinsite.ucsf.edu. It s spreading.
People still don t understand that it only takes that one time.
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