HIV/AIDS

What to Watch For

- Symptoms show up several months to several years after contact with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

- Can be present for many years with no symptoms.

- Unexplained weight loss and tiredness.

- Flu-like feelings that don’t go away.

- Diarrhea.

- White spots in mouth.

- In women, yeast infections that don’t go away.

How Do You Get This STD?

- Spread during vaginal, anal and oral sex with someone who has HIV.

- Spread by sharing needles to inject drugs.

- Spread by contact with infected blood.

What Happens if You Don’t Get Treated?

- You can give HIV to your sexual partner(s) or someone you share a needle with.

-HIV cannot be cured. Can cause illness and death.

-A mother with HIV can give it to her baby in the womb, during childbirth or while breastfeeding.

For more information, contact your medical provider or the Oklahoma City-County Health Department 425-4430.