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Expert: Kristen Brannock, MPH - 4/8/2005


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what are all the ways you may catch aids

Answer
HIV can be transmitted whenever infected blood, semen, vaginal fluid and/or breast milk enters another's body through any type of opening.

The most common routes are through unprotected anal, vaginal and oral sex; through sharing needles for drug injection; and from mother to child.

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Kristen Brannock, MPH

Expertise

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.

Experience

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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