Channel 4 News published this video item, entitled “HIV testing rises as ‘It’s a Sin’ become C4’s most-watched drama” – below is their description.
Not only has the TV series ‘It’s A Sin’ won critical acclaim and become Channel 4’s most-watched drama series ever, it is being credited with a massive rise in the number of people taking tests for HIV.
Charities see testing as being crucial in helping to meet the target of ending new HIV cases by 2030.
‘It’s a Sin’ is set during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and we have been speaking to people affected by HIV, including one of the stars of the drama series.
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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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