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Do children get HIV / AIDS?

April 26, 2017AIDS children

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Do children get HIV / AIDS?

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Around 90% of children contract the virus by mother to child transmission. Children can also be infected via blood/blood products if these are not screened for HIV and by contaminated needles. Also, there are many reported cases of children or adolescents in the age of 10-19 years who have contracted HIV through injecting drugs and through unprotected or forced sexual intercourse with an older infected person.