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i Ifyou or your parmer is at high risk, avoid mouth contact IntratwnousDrug Users with the penis, vagina, or rectum. Drag abusers who inlect drugs into their veins are another · Avoid all sexual activities which could cause cuts or tears population group at high risk and with high rates of infec. in the linings of the rectum, vagina, or penis, tion by the AIDS vires. Users of intravenous ~ugs make Up · Single teen-age girls have been warned that pregnancy } 25 percent of the cases of AIDS throughout the country. I and contracting sexually transmitted diseases can be the The AIDS virus is carried in contaminated blood left in the result of only one act of sexual intercourse. They have needle, syringe, or other drug related implements and the been taught to say NO to sex! They have been taught to ? virus is iniected into the new victim by reusing dirty syringes I say NO to drugs! By saying NO to sex and drugs, they can and needles. Even the smallest amount of infected blood avoid AIDS which can k///them! The same is true for left in a used needle or syringe can contain live AIDS Cms teenage boys who should also not have rectal intercourse to be passed on to the next user of those dirty implements. I with other males. It may result in AIDS. No one should shoot up drugs because addiction, poor · health, family disruption, emotional disturbances and o Do not have sex with prostitutes. Infected male and death could follow. However, many drag users are addicted female prostitutes are frequently also intravenous drug to drags and for one reason or another have not changed · abusers; therefore, they may infect clients by sexual inter- their behavior. For these people, the only way not to get course and other intravenous drug abusers by sharing AIDS is to use a clean, pretn'ously unused needle, syringe alsotheir canintraven°USinfect their drug unborn equipment.babies. Female prostitutes, drug or any solution.°ther implement necessary' for the injection of the _l ~ Hemopf~ilia I [~~~ Some persons with hemophilia (a blood dotting disorder ~~ that makes them subject to bleeding)have been infected ~ .... with the AIDS virus either through blood transfusion or the use of blood products that help their blood clot. N°w i .i that we know how to prepare safe blood products to aid :.:~~';;)!.:..."'" -.. , ... ::::.,.,a;:,. '":i{ clotting, this is unlikely to happen. This group represents i '.iff:5 ~~!~:'i!~~'5)'~ a very small percentage of the cases of AIDS throughout ;_ :' ':'}::::.%' .x~.:'a! . .~.. : :: i-?.,"~~;:.-.~.. · ' .: !/,. / , t'~>'{ ":' ~' ' ~'"'~ Currently all blood donors are initially screened and blood i ~'-_--~ % ' ~ is not accepted from high risk individuals. Blood that has - ..... --~----~-~.-:s,: :,:=c :; .... ~ ...................... .~ been collected for use is tested for the presence of antibodY Dirty intraoenous needle andsyn'nge contamir~ted wflh to the AIDS Cms. However, some people may have had a bloodthat maycontain theAtDSvirvx blood transfusion prior to March 1985 before we knew how to screen blood for safe transfusion and may have become 18/~'0 19