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Can You Contract HIV From Casual Contact
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Can a child contact HIV from a carrier who's "dads friend"? (CASUAL CONTACT, HIV BASICS)My daughters (5) and her father, is in a relationship with a girl who is a HIV Carrier on medication. Can the virus be given to my child? I want to make sure to protect her from getting it. ...
Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
Hello,First of all, there is no such thing as an "HIV carrier." Someone is either HIV positive (infected) or HIV negative (not infected).Next, HIV is not transmitted by casual conduct and you should have no fears about your daughter...
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THANK YOU...you opended my mind (HIV TRANSMISSION, CASUAL CONTACT)I wrote to you about 3 to four days ago about my fear of contracting hiv by casual contact with my... Read more »New Friends have HIV (HIV TRANSMISSION, CASUAL CONTACT)My wife met a nice couple and we have been hanging out with them. They told her when they first... Read more »
Articles
Increased Condom Use, Less Casual Sex Among Youth in Zimbabwe Helping to Reduce Spread of HIVA "generational shift" toward less casual sex and increased condom use among young people in Zimbabwe is helping to reduce the spread of HIV in the country, researchers have said recently, the McClatchy/ Miami Herald reports (Bengali, McClatchy/... Read more »
Romance in Digital Age: Casual Sex Is Having Unintended Results for More Young Adults in FloridaThe number of college-age students getting STDs is rising, with about 36,000 Floridians in their early 20s having contracted chlamydia, gonorrhea or syphilis in 2010. That amounted to about 3 percent of the age group. New HIV case numbers also have... Read more »
Study Examines Why Merck Vaccine Candidate Might Have Increased Likelihood of Contracting HIVTrials of Merck 's experimental HIV vaccine were halted in September 2007 because the drug might have increased the likelihood of contracting the virus rather than preventing it, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of Experimental... Read more »
Hispanics in U.S. Contract HIV Through Different Transmission Routes Based on Birthplace, MMWR Study SaysHIV-positive Hispanics living in the U.S. contract the virus through different transmission routes primarily based on where they were born, according to a study published Thursday in CDC 's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , Reuters ... Read more »
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to the CASUAL CONTACT guy
Posted by mental_case
look i am trying to help you here but...you have an awful weird definition of CASUAL contact! there is not an exchange of cum or blood in casual contact it is that simple. WHAT YOU ARE RELATING IS NOT CASUAL CONTACT! in life anything can happen and if... Read more » Casual contact?
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
Does anyone knows if someone has been infected by casual contact? I mean, someone getting infected even tough he/she never had unprotected anal, vaginal or swallowing semen? I mean, casual contact like getting some little precum in your face or your...
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HIV - through hand contact?
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
I'm currently feeling absolutely petrified and shocked with an insistent belief that I have contracted HIV. The tragic incident occurred with a prostitute who first had her fingers inside her vagina and then used that hand to rub my penis for some... Read more » My 7 yr anxiety of contracting HIV
Posted by XManifest, 2 Replies
Hi there,I have a had a fear of AIDS for the past 6 years. So bad that I could not study for my final exams. this fear is not due to unprotected casual sex or needles, Ive only had one partner in my life.I once had bad acne on my chest and back, and... Read more »
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