Risk Factors

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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