•Transmission•

The disease can be transmitted in the following ways:

- Through body fluids from infected people, such as blood, breast milk, semen, and vaginal secretions.

- From a pregnant mother to the child.

-By having unprotected sex.

- Sharing or exchanging needles, syringes, or any other injecting equipment that has been contaminated.

- While receiving unsafe injections, blood transfusions, or medical procedures that involve unsterile cutting or piercing.

•Treatment•

HIV attacks the immune system, weakening the body's defences against infections and various cancers that individuals with healthy immune systems can resist.

According to WHO, there is no cure for HIV infection. However, thanks to increased access to effective HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment, the infection has become a manageable chronic health condition, allowing people with it to live long and healthy lives.

HIV can be managed by treatment with antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. Though antiretroviral therapy (ART) does not cure HIV infection, it slows viral replication in the body and allows the immune system to recover and fight off opportunistic infections and some malignancies.

Since 2016, WHO has recommended that all people living with HIV be provided with lifelong ART, including children, adolescents, adults, and pregnant and breastfeeding women.

Source- NDTV.