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What is HIV?

How can you get HIV?

How is HIV passed into the body?

What are the signs and symptoms?

How common is it in the US?

How can HIV be avoided?

Use condoms consistently and correctlyAvoid risky behaviors (unprotected sex,

drug use, not getting tested regularly)Be monogamous and have the

conversation BEFORE having sex with a new partner

HIV in the news

• Cops: Man stabs girlfriend after learning she had HIV (Sept.11, 2012)• Police say 36-year-old Larry Dunn Jr. confessed to them he

stabbed his girlfriend to death after she told him she was HIV positive

• After they allegedly had sex, Dunn told police Bolden told him she had HIV but said “it is not that bad,” court documents say.

• Allegedly upset that Bolden didn’t tell him she was HIV positive, Dunn told police he got up out of the bed and walked to the kitchen to get a knife, according to the affidavit. He then walked back to the bedroom where Bolden was laying on the bed and “started stabbing her,” Dunn told police

• “She killed me so I killed her”

HIV used for good…

• HIV used to fight cancer