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How are STDs transmitted?

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(i) Normally Sexually transmitted infections (STI) are transmitted from person to person during intimate sexual contact with an infected partner.
(ii) Infections like Hepatitis-B and HIV are transmitted sexually as well as by sharing of infusion needles, surgical instruments, etc with infected people, blood transformation or from infected mother to baby.
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