transmission

(noun)

HIV is transmitted by three main routes: sexual contact, exposure to infected body fluids or tissues and from mother to child during pregnancy, delivery or breastfeeding.

Related Terms

Examples of transmission in the following topics:

  • Cultural Transmission

    • Cultural transmission is the way a group of people within a society or culture tend to learn and pass on new information.
    • Cultural transmission is the way a group of people or animals within a society or culture tend to learn and pass on new information.
    • Analyze the importance of cultural transmission, particularly in terms of learning styles

  • Animals and Culture

    • This process, most agree, involves the social transmission of a novel behavior, both among peers and between generations.
    • The acquisition and sharing of behaviors correlates directly to the existence of memes, which are defined as "units of cultural transmission" by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.
    • Darwin was also the first to suggest what became known as 'social learning' in explaining the transmission of an adaptive behavior pattern throughout a population of honey bees.

  • Infectious Diseases Today and in the Developing World

    • Infectious diseases, also known as transmissible diseases or communicable diseases, are clinically evident illnesses resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents.
    • There are various modes of HIV transmission which include: male to male sexual contact, injection drug use, and heterosexual contact.
    • In some developing countries where antiretroviral drugs are not affordable or readily accessible, mother-to-child transmission still poses a possible risk of infection.

  • HIV and AIDS

    • Campaigns have attempted to distribute condoms to HIV/AIDS stricken regions–consistent condom use reduces the risk of HIV transmission by approximately 80% over the long-term.
    • Based on these studies, the World Health Organization has recommended male circumcision as a method of preventing female-to-male HIV transmission.
    • Medication can also include a decreased risk of transmission of the disease to sexual partners and a decrease in mother to child transmission.

  • Colonialism and the Spread of Diseases

    • Furthermore, sexual transmission of disease grew with colonization.

  • Cultural Sociology: Researching Culture

    • Additionally, Anderson observed both the transmission of culture from generation to generation (i.e., socialization, but also the self-representation that is provided by cultural expressions (clothing, behavior, etc).

  • Rumors

    • About 70% of details in a message are lost in the first 5 to 6 transmissions.

  • Academic Skills and Knowledge

    • Much like other forms of capital, social capital, economic capital, and cultural capital, academic capital doesn't depend on one sole factor but instead is made up of many different factors, including the individual's academic transmission from his/her family, status of the academic institutions attended, and publications produced by the individual.

  • HIV and AIDS

    • The three main transmission routes of HIV are sexual contact, exposure to infected body fluids or tissues, and from mother to fetus during the perinatal period.

  • The Role of the Media

    • In communications, media are the storage and transmission channels or tools used to store and deliver information or data.