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Pennsylvania: Housing and HIV Go Hand in Hand

Philadelphia is beginning a needs assessment to better chart the intersection of HIV and housing issues for 2012-17. More than 140,000 HIV-affected U.S. households struggle with unstable housing, according to the National AIDS Housing Coalition.... Read more »

Improving Response to HIV Goes Hand-in-Hand With Improving Overall Health Systems, Experts Say

The battle against HIV is not in competition with battles against other major diseases in the developing world, prominent researchers and experts asserted at IAS 2009. Quite the opposite: The lessons learned during the global response to HIV have... Read more »

Louisiana: HIV, Hepatitis C Often Go Hand in Hand, Experts Say

New Orleans and Baton Rouge are among the 10 US cities that have the highest HIV rates, according to recent surveillance reports. In 2006, 7 percent of Louisiana residents with hepatitis C virus were co-infected with HIV. However, actual... Read more »

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Risk of HIV due to hand job

Dear Doctor,I got a handjob in a massage parlour. During that, I touched that girls vagina with my hand. There were fluid on my hand. And while she was giving me hand job I also touched my penis with my hand several times. Am I at risk of getting...

Response from Shannon Southall

Rocky Mountain CARES

HiSorry for the delay in answering your question. Your risk of HIV transmission is very small. If she had HIV, with a high viral load and you had sores or openings besides your urethra, then the risk of HIV transmission this way is so very... Read more »

HIV transmission from cookies straight from hands of HIV +

Dear Dr. Wohl,I a from Fiji and recently, an HIV positive friend gaveme cookies straight from his hand and I am worried that he could have use that hand elsewhere.Am I at risk with HIV?Thankscv...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

HIV from a cookie? No. As long as you do not have unprotected sex with this pal or use injection equipment he has used, you have nothing to worry about in terms of catching HIV from him.DW... Read more »

HIV from blood on hand?

Hello. I would like to ask if its posible to get AIDS if somebody bleeds on your handThank you...

Response from Erik Glenn, M.A.

Chicago Black Gay Mens Caucus

Thanks for your question,You can <b>only</b> get HIV from blood on your hand if you have a big open (probably bleeding) wound on your hand and if the blood that came on your hand was fresh (literally just coming out of someone).In other... Read more »

Possibility for HIV to transmit by hand

Hi dr, I yesterday i had been hand job from a sex worker and i touched inside her virginal, later i went to take a shower with shower foam....Will i be at risk of having HIV? By the way i had STD, so should i go for HIV test? Will it be accurate if...

Response from Erik Glenn, M.A.

Chicago Black Gay Mens Caucus

Thanks for your questions,Firstly, there's not real risk of getting HIV from fingering a sex worker.Secondly, if you already have an STD getting tested for HIV may already be a good idea because many STDs (the ones that are transmitted by... Read more »

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I have HIV from Hand job or sex?

Posted by goloka, 3 Replies

Hi guys, I am very concern, because of my symptoms, that I may have HIV.
My recent exposure was went to the massage parlor and had a hand job and a massage with a massage oil. Then next day, I had felt the urge of urination and went to a doc and got... Read more »

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 »

Blood on hands= HIV?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Last week I went to a concert and there a guy busted his head open. I didnt come into contact with him and they took him off to get it checked. A few minutes later I saw him and we shook hands because we thought the band was good. Anyways I noticed... Read more »

hand job by prostitute

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

can you get hiv from a hand job by a prostitute???
Worried.

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