- 21. Are patients in a health care setting at risk of getting HIV?
- (HIV Transmission)
- Although HIV transmission is possible in health care settings, it is extremely rare. Medical experts emphasize that the careful practice of infection control procedures, including universal precautions ...
- 22. Are health care workers at risk of getting HIV on the job?
- (HIV Transmission)
- The risk of health care workers being exposed to HIV on the job is very low, especially if they carefully follow universal precautions (i.e., using protective practices and personal protective equipment ...
- 23. How well does HIV survive outside the body?
- (HIV Transmission)
- Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well outside the body, making the possibility of environmental transmission remote. HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts ...
- 24. Trichomoniasis
- (Shanghai STDs Testing Center)
- ... to HIV infection if she is exposed to the virus. Having trichomoniasis may increase the chance that an HIV-infected woman passes HIV to her sex partner(s). How does trichomoniasis affect a pregnant woman ...
- 25. Syphilis
- (Shanghai STDs Testing Center)
- ... pregnant woman should have a blood test for syphilis. What is the link between syphilis and HIV? Genital sores (chancres) caused by syphilis make it easier to transmit and acquire HIV infection sexually. ...
- 26. Genital HPV Infection
- (Shanghai STDs Testing Center)
- ... of males and females. These HPV types can also infect the mouth and throat. Most people who become infected with HPV do not even know they have it. HPV is not the same as herpes or HIV (the virus that ...
- 27. Genital Herpes
- (Shanghai STDs Testing Center)
- ... of a baby from a woman with herpes infection is rare. Herpes may play a role in the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Herpes can make people more susceptible to HIV infection, and it can make ...
- 28. Gonorrhea
- (Shanghai STDs Testing Center)
- ... can be life threatening. In addition, people with gonorrhea can more easily contract HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. HIV-infected people with gonorrhea can transmit HIV more easily to someone else than ...
- 29. Chlamydia
- (Shanghai STDs Testing Center)
- ... pelvic pain, infertility, and potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy (pregnancy outside the uterus). Women infected with chlamydia are up to five times more likely to become infected with HIV, if exposed. ...
- 30. Bacterial Vaginosis
- (Shanghai STDs Testing Center)
- ... to HIV infection if she is exposed to the HIV virus. Having BV increases the chances that an HIV-infected woman can pass HIV to her sex partner. Having BV has been associated with an increase ...
- 31. ACON Syphilis Test Strip
- (HIV Rapid Test)
- ... that have contributed to this rise include the crack cocaine epidemic and the high incidence of prostitution among drug users. One study reported a large number of HIV-infected females exhibited reactive ...
- 32. HIV / AIDS 101
- (about)
- What is HIV? The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infects cells of the immune system, destroying or impairing their function. Infection with the virus results in the progressive deterioration of ...
- 33. Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control & Prevention
- (Directory/City Hospital)
- Shanghai CDC focus on: Research; condom promotion; training; health education; surveillance and management of HIV and AIDS; trials of Chinese herbal treatments. ...
- 34. The Center of Disease Prevention and Control of Pudong
- (Directory/City Hospital)
- ... of the measurement certification, with 9 categories 324 parameters of the inspection and testing capabilities. The center is also the HIV screening laboratory in Shanghai, the National Iodine Deficiency ...
