Table of Contents Newsletters & Articles Island News Women's News Conferences Guam Calendar The Arrow Family

HIV does not survive HIV is found only in semen and pre-ejaculate fluid, vaginal secretion, blood and breast milk. HIV does not survive long outside the body and therefore can only be transmitted when these body fluids of an infected individual enter an uninfected individual. HIV is only transmitted in very specific ways: having unprotected sex (vaginal, anal or oral) with someone infected with HIV, or sharing needles to inject any drugs (including steroids), or by body piercing or tattooing someone infected with HIV when HIV-infected blood is passed directly into your blood from needles or syringes, or breastfeeding an infant or transmission when a baby is delivered by an infected mother to her baby.