Using Language HIV/AIDS:ARE YOU AT RISK? HIV is a virus 1. _____weakensa person's immune system and eventually your body can no longer fight disease. This stage of the illness 2. ______ (call) AIDS. If you develop AIDS, your chances of 3.______ (survive) are very small. HIV is spread through blood or the fluid that the body makes during sex. Through broken skin or by injection,blood or sexual fluidthat carries the virus get inside the body; consequentlya person is to become infected. Before scientistsfind a cure 4. ______ HIV/AIDS one day,you need to protect yourself.The following will make sure you stay safe. First, if you inject drugs, you should not share your needle 5. _____ anyone else. If a person has HIV and you use the same needle, you could inject the virus into your own blood as well. Secondly, you shouldn’t share anything else that a person has used while injecting drugs.Blood could have spilt on it. If one has sex with a male or a female, it’s recommended that he or she 6.___ (use)a condom. This will prevent sexual fluid passing from one person to another. There are some statements that are misunderstood by people. WRONG . A person cannot get HIV the first time they have sex. ---7.______ one sexual partner has HIV, the other partner could become infected. WRONG .You can tell by looking at someone whether or not they have HIV. --- Many people8. _____(carry) HIV look perfectly healthy. Only when the disease has progressed to AIDS does a person begin to look sick. WRONG . Only homosexuals get AIDS. --- Anyone who has sex with a person infected with H1V/AIDS risks getting the virus. Women are slightly more likely to become infected than men. WRONG .If you hug, touch 9. _____ kiss someone with AIDS or visit them in their home, you will get HIV/AIDS. --- You can only get the disease from blood or sexual fluid.Unfortunately, people with HIV sometimes lose 10. _____friends because of prejudice. Some AIDS patients cannot find anyone to look after them when sick. WRONG. You can get HIV/AIDS from mosquitoes. --- There is no evidence of this.