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Yesterday, on World AIDS Day, the government pledged more than £23 million to end HIV infections in England by 2030. Around a third of people living with HIV in the UK are women, with a 20% increase in women over the age of 65 being diagnosed in 2019 – something attributed to the amount of ‘silver splitters’ hitting the dating market and thinking they no longer need to use contraception. To demonstrate the importance of regular check ups and to show how easy they are to do our very own Charlene will be taking a HIV test on air and sharing how quickly the results are available.
From series 25, broadcast on 02/12/21
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In This Story: HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive.
Without treatment, average survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype. In most cases, HIV is a sexually transmitted infection and occurs by contact with or transfer of blood, pre-ejaculate, semen, and vaginal fluids. Research has shown (for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples) that HIV is untransmittable through condomless sexual intercourse if the HIV-positive partner has a consistently undetectable viral load.
Non-sexual transmission can occur from an infected mother to her infant during pregnancy, during childbirth by exposure to her blood or vaginal fluid, and through breast milk. Within these bodily fluids, HIV is present as both free virus particles and virus within infected immune cells.
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