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AIDS is communicable ONLY by

a) Unprotected sex with an infected partner,

b) Drugs in which a person shares a needle with an infected person, and

c) Passed down through pregnancy.

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Communicable means that it can be passed from person to person, i.e contagious. So HIV, the cause of AIDS, is communicable.

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It is a communicable disease because it can be spread to onother person or thing making it have aids to

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