HIV travels from person to person through body fluids such as blood, semen, vaginal fluids, and breast milk. It is most often spread through sex or by sharing needles used to inject drugs into the veins. An infected woman can also pass HIV to her child during birth or breast-feeding. Blood transfusions given to patients before 1986 also spread HIV, but the risk now of getting the virus this way is low-only 1 in 500,000. A person can't catch HIV through casual contact such as hugs, kisses, or handshakes.

They have seen it coming but they did not know that it would have the power to kill their practice and their relationship with the children, to challenge the essence of their humanity (up to now they thought they had enough humanity in themselevs to do their jobs), even their sense of self. This extraordinary and unprecedented challenge is brought about by what HIV is doing to children. (That HIV causes Aids is not something they argue about - they see the evidence daily.)

These shocks are now our daily fare. Like the steady reverberations from a pile-driver, they rattle the pillars on which, up to now, we have built our professional lives.

Now that you know more about what aids, lets talk about where the UN main focus in at on the problem. The pattern of AIDS deaths -2.4 million in sub-Saharan Africa last year, out of 3 million worldwide; only 20,000 in North America, most in minority communities-has a clear racial pattern. And access to lifesaving medicines and care for people living with HIV and AIDS has been determined largely

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