(CDC) AIDS Prevention Guide: The Facts About HIV Infection and AIDS

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; January, 1998

Contents
--Putting the facts to use
--Talking with young people about HIV infection and AIDS
--Deciding what to say to younger children (Late elementary and middle school aged)
--Deciding what to say to teenagers (Junior and senior high school aged)
--How to join the community response
--Where to go for further information and assistance

What is HIV Infection? And What is AIDS?

Young People Do Get AIDS.

Many people think that young people don't get AIDS. That's not true. AIDS can affect anyone -- of any age, of any ethnic or racial background -- who engages in behavior with an infected person that can transmit HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

As of December 1993, nearly 68,000 people aged 20-29 have been diagnosed with AIDS. Because a person can be infected with the virus that causes AIDS for as long as 10 or more years before the signs of AIDS appear, many of these young people were likely infected when they were teenagers.

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