PUBLIC CONFUSED ABOUT HOW YOU GET HIV Nearly half (46%) of the general public wrongly think you can get HIV from being bitten, spat at or coming into contact with a discarded needle and underestimate the impact unsafe sex has on HIV transmission, a new survey[1] shows (14 Jan) .
British public confused about how you get HIV
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