HIV Risk Factors

HIV risk factors:

The following people are most at risk of HIV infection:

• people who have unprotected vaginal or anal sex 
• people who have sex with many partners, thereby increasing the chance that they will encounter a partner who is hiv infected 
• people who share needles (for example for intravenous drug use, tattooing or body piercing) 
• babies of mothers who are HIV infected 

• people who have another sti, especially stis that cause open sores or ulcers such as herpes, chancroid or syphilis 
• haemophiliacs and other people who frequently receive blood products
• health care workers, where precautions are neglected or fail (for example through not wearing gloves or accidental needle injuries).