Apart from having sex, how else can HIV be transmitted?

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a form of retrovirus that causes HIV infection. Over time it leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). AIDS is a condition where due to progressive failure of the immune system, allows life-threatening infections which don’t usually bother a healthy person and cancers to thrive in the body. This is why HIV is one of the infections we humans are most worried about after a sexual encounter. There are a few ways to detect HIV in the blood and each method has different testing window periods.

Any form of sexual activity with anyone, regardless of gender or type of sexual encounter, carries a chance of passing on a STD. If you think you have a STD, you should abstain from sexual relations and get yourself treated. Even if STD is not transmitted every time you have sex, they can be transmitted any time you have sex.