Factors that increase your chance of getting HIV include:
- Having multiple sexual partners
- Sharing needles for injecting drugs
- Having regular exposure to HIV-contaminated blood or other body fluids (a concern for healthcare workers)
- Being born to an HIV-infected mother
- Receiving donor blood products, tissue, organs, or artificial insemination
- Being an immigrants from geographic locations with high numbers of AIDS patients (east central Africa and Haiti)
- Having a sexual relationship with a high-risk individual or a partner already infected with HIV
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