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Please help, incident happened while getting blood drawn.

I scared that I may be at risk to contract HIV or hepatitis from getting my blood test! Basically I watched everything during the blood draw very carefully but looked away after the needle was in my arm and the vials were being filled. Then when I...

Response from Richard Cordova III

Test Positive Aware Network

Hi there:I would not be concerned. As a health care professional, I highly doubt he would have pressed the gauze against his own bleeding wound before placing it on your arm.If you continue to have thoughts like these, it's very possible that... Read more »

Concern about getting HIV through a needle during blood test

Hello Dr. Bob. I know you are a busy person. I have been reading a lot on you site and kindly wnat to ask you to respond to me. I will donate $ 100.00. I cannot eat, cannot sleep, have a child...that required my attention. It is really hard for me...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,You cannot acquire HIV from getting an HIV test! Needles are not reused. You are HIV negative.I believe you accurately diagnosed your problem when you wrote ". . . I am still under stress and do not know how to cope with my craziness."... Read more »

getting AIDS

To be clear; If I'm clean and I have sexual intercourse with an HIV positive or somebody with AIDS, and there is not any cuts or bleeding spots, Am I in risk to get AIDS or the virus. According to my knowlege HIV or AIDS is only transmited by...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Claudia, You are wrong. Unprotected sex with someone who is HIV positive places you at risk for STDs, including HIV. I just can't be any clearer than that. Spend some time reading the basic safer sex information on this site and related... Read more »

HIV- woman gets pregnant by man with AIDS

I'm involved in a situation where the woman became pregnant by a man with AIDS. So far, she has tested negative. She is due late July and I have heard that even though she is HIV- right now, that during labor/birth, she may "cross...

Response from Katherine Luzuriaga, M.D.

University of Massachusetts, Medical School

The most common test used to screen for HIV infection screens for the presence of HIV antibodies in the blood. After exposure, it can take at least 6 weeks (sometimes longer), to make sufficient antibodies to be detected by the test. This is why we... Read more »

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AIDS anxiety and getting tested

Posted by Anonymous

Anyone who thinks they may be HIV positive should get tested.
In 1988, when the virus was killing many, I developed a condition entitled "AIDS ANXIETY".
This condition can literally drive you nuts! Checking yourself constantly for symptoms, Going... Read more »

whats my chance of getting AIDS by giving oral sex

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

About 3 weeks ago I gave oral sex to a sex worker in China. It lasted for about 1-2 minutes and I didn't feel any cuts in my mouth. What would be the possibility of me contracting AIDS this way assuming if she was HIV positive?

This is the most... Read more »

Getting an understanding of HIV

Posted by Mssimone, 2 Replies

Well like I said before I was just diagnoised.

Im trying to get an understanding of the whole hiv/aids.

The question that im going to ask might make you mad but its a question that I just sit and think about wondering if someone else is thinking it... Read more »

HIV infection from dried blood?

Posted by panic05, 5 Replies

I got a question on HIV infection from dried blood. I know no one has been infected with HIV due to contact with toilet seat so far. But I am still worrying about its possibility.

Today, I went to a public washroom. After flushing the toilet, I... Read more »

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