Alexander Pronin, the chief freelance specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection in the Moscow Region, believes that the transmission of the HIV virus from person to person is impossible through insect bites. This was reported by RIA Novosti.
“You can dispel myths that still exist, for example, about the transmission of infection” through a mosquito “or any other fantastic ways and factors of transmission,” said Pronin.
The infectious disease specialist named only three possible routes of HIV transmission. The first is during unprotected sexual intercourse. The second is when the blood of an infected person enters the blood of a healthy person. And the third from HIV positive mother to baby during pregnancy.
According to the doctor, when they talk about the ingress of blood with a virus into the bloodstream of a healthy person, they mainly mean situations of joint drug use, when people use the same syringe.
As for unprotected sex, according to Alexander Pronin, the probability of infection in the most direct way depends on the number of sexual partners and the frequency of contacts with them without using a condom. In this regard, he also noted that when using drugs and alcohol, a person's sexual behavior changes towards a more risky
Referring to the last of the three known to science ways of HIV transmission – from mother to child – Pronin explained that modern methods of antiretroviral treatment and proven prevention algorithms have reduced such cases to a minimum and children are born healthy.
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