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HIV/AIDS is a communicable yet preventable disease, which can lead to serious social and economic repercussions. India's national adult HIV prevalence rate of less than 1% offers little indication of the serious situation facing the country. An estimated 4 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2003—the second-highest figure in the world, after South Africa.
While HIV/AIDS was once considered a "white gay man's disease," a larger proportion of new HIV diagnoses in several Western European countries is occurring through heterosexual intercourse. For example, more than half of the new HIV infections diagnosed in the UK in 2001 resulted from heterosexual sex, compared with 33% of new infections in 1998.
Confusion about the body fluids that can transmit HIV is a common cause of fear and misunderstanding about HIV and contributes to the discrimination against Persons Living with AIDS (PLWAs). Body fluids that contain HIV in sufficient concentrate to be implicated in HIV transmission are blood, semen, pre-ejaculate, vaginal fluids, and breast milk.
HIV cannot be transmitted through body fluids such as saliva, sweat, tears, or urine.
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