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It is important to understand however, that finding a small amount of HIV in a body fluid or tissue does not mean that HIV is transmitted by that body fluid or tissue. These specific fluids must come in contact with a mucous membrane or damaged tissue or be directly injected into the blood-stream from a needle or syringe for transmission to possibly occur.
In the United States, HIV is most commonly transmitted through specific sexual behaviors anal or vaginal sex or sharing needles with an infected person. It is less common for HIV to be transmitted through oral sex or for an HIV-infected woman to pass the virus to her baby before or during childbirth or after birth through breastfeeding or by prechewing food for her infant.
In the United States, it is also possible to acquire HIV through exposure to infected blood, transfusions of infected blood, blood products, or organ transplantation, though this risk is extremely remote due to rigorous testing of the U. For more information, see: How safe is the blood supply in the United States? Some healthcare workers have become infected after being stuck with needles containing HIV-infected blood or, less frequently, when infected blood comes in contact with a worker's open cut or is splashed into a worker's eyes or inside their nose.
There has been only one instance of patients being infected by an HIV-infected dentist. Only certain fluidsβblood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, rectal fluids, vaginal fluids, and breast milkβfrom an HIV-infected person can transmit HIV. These fluids must come in contact with a mucous membrane or damaged tissue or be directly injected into the bloodstream from a needle or syringe for transmission to possibly occur.
