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Expert: Kristen Brannock, MPH - 12/20/2005


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Hi Kristen
If Mr.X is not infected and if he has UNPROTECTED sex with say 100+ girls who are not infected.
IS there any chance of him getting infected with the HIV/AIDS ?
if not HIV/AIDS is there any other disease he may be infected with?
How did this HIV/AIDS ORIGINATE?

Thanks


Answer
HIV does not spontaneously generate-one of the people involved in the sexual encounter must have it in order to pass it on to someone else. By having unprotected sex, MR. X is exposing himself to any sexually transmitted infection than any of the 100 women may have. It is believed that HIV was first a virus of simians (SIV) but during hunting practices and eating raw simian meat, the virus was transmitted to humans, thus being called HIV. This is only a theory.

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Kristen Brannock, MPH

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I can answer questions concerning HIV infection and AIDS. This includes ways it can and cannot be transmitted, how it is treated, how it affects the body and methods to protect yourself. I can also answer questions concerning safer sex and contraception.

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I trained with the Red Cross to become an HIV/AIDS counselor and was a member of CARES- Carolina AIDS Resource Education Service in college. I have an MPH in Health Behavior and Health Education and conduct research in the field of HIV prevention. I also take continuing education courses in HIV/STI prevention periodically.

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Master of Public Health Health Behavior and Health Education UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (formerly UNC-CH School of Public Health)

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