It does not discriminate according to race, age, gender or sexual orientation. As a result of that misconception, it now effects more women than men, more heterosexuals than homosexuals, and more African-Americans than any other race. One in 50 African Americans test HIV positive. HIV is transmitted only by the exchange of bodily fluids. Blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk and pre-ejaculate or sexual lubricants excreted by the body are highly infectious.
Toilet seats are another myth.
You can only get HIV from a toilet seat if you are very intimate with it. You can't get HIV from a toilet seat. Sharing needles while injecting drugs, getting tattoos or having a part of your body pierced can transmit the disease. It can also be transmitted through the transfer of bodily fluids via an unhealed piercing, such as a tongue stud. It cannot go through pores.