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Can You Get Hiv When Blood Touches Your Skin
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Cut client's ear and blood touched my skinI am a hairdresser. I nicked my client's ear with the clippers and it started bleeding. Some of the blood got on my finger. I immediately washed my hands with soap and water. Would there be any risk of contracting HIV from this incident. (The...
Response from Richard Cordova III
Test Positive Aware Network
Hi there:I would not be concerned. You would have needed an open bleeding wound on your hand for this to be even a remote risk. In health,Richard...
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Anal touching - I pray not with blood!Hi dr bob, Great sight, I am concerned about a potential exposure. A couple months ago I went for a... Read more »Exposure risk from touching bloodFirst off great site and loads of info! My question is in regards to an occupational (law... Read more »
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China Says It Faces Threat From Illegal Blood SalesYears after illegal blood sales touched off an AIDS outbreak in central China, the Health Ministry admitted such sales still threaten the nation's hospitals. "The phenomenon in some areas of paying for blood supplies, or making money from blood,... Read more »
AIDS and American Religion: An Issue of BloodMatt: 9:20-21 "And behold a women, which was diseased with an issueof blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: Forshe said within herself, If I may but touch the hem of his garment, I shall bewhole." (King James) ... Read more »
Sharing, Caring and Touching Lives . . .National HIV Testing Day in Atlanta was a great success! Over 1,000 people were tested in four metro locations, including street outreach at Five Points MARTA Station (151 tested); Lindbergh MARTA Station (167 tested); American Red Cross (211... Read more »
HIV 101: Essential Elements of Standard Precautions in the Correctional SettingHand washing Hands should be washed after touching any body fluids, after removing gloves, and between patient contacts. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) PPE should be readily accessible in all patient care areas, housing units,... Read more »
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My child touch blood of my HIV+ Husband
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
My husband is HIV+He cut his finger bad and ran into the bathroom and he was dripping blood on the floor. My young daugher touch the blood and ran to the basement ( I was washing clothes) and said "daddy is bleeding, daddy is bleeding") Although im... Read more » body fluid touched the skin without intercourse
Posted by mona811
can anyone tell me that if body fluid has touched the skin without intercoursing can person be effected with hiv
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touched blood in water
Posted by 613, 2 Replies
I think this is my OCD getting the better of me but here goes.Last night at a Halloween punk/metal show I and a friend of mine had fake blood on our hands. We washed them together in a bucket of water. He then said he cut his hand and was washing the... Read more » touching wet blood on floor
Posted by 613, 4 Replies
These blood fears are sickening but here goes:About 6-7 months ago in capoeira class I was doing a hand stand and there was a spot of blood on the floor. I accidentally got one of my fingers in it. I wiped it off on my pants as there was no water. I... Read more »
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