How Easily Is Hiv Spread

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HIV SPREAD FROM FOOD PREPARED BY HIV+ person

Can you get HIV if the person preparing your food got blood on your sandwich and you ate it right away??? This is of great concern to me. Please help me PLEASE! I donate money often...

Response from Joseph McGowan, M.D., F.A.C.P.

North Shore University Hospital

HIV is not easily tranmitted through the GI tract...that is eating food. Even the rates with oral sex have been too low to quantify accurately. I would not consider this to be a high risk situation. Best,JoePS I would answer the same even if you... Read more »

Are women more easily infected by HIV than men

Is it easier for a women to get infected sleeping with an infected male than what it is if a male sleeps with an infected female....

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Yes it is. And if you think it through, you'll probably understand why. It's simple biology. If an HIV-positive man spunks without protection into a woman's love canal, he deposits a considerable amount of baby batter right into... Read more »

AIDS can be easily treated in most people,

In a recent question, you responded by stating "AIDS can be easily treated in most people". Perhaps I'm just overwhelmed by my recent poz status, but to me, there doesnt appear to be anything easy about aids treatment or survival....

Response from Nelson Vergel, B.S.Ch.E., M.B.A.

Program for Wellness Restoration

As a 20 year survivor of HIV and one who has developed multi drug class resistance, I still believe that HIV is a manageable disease and that we can preserve quality of life. I did not say it was easy. It takes a lot of self empowerement and... Read more »

Bruising Easily--Am I Positive?

I am HIV-negative, but I have safe sex (no penetration) with my HIV-positivepartner. He has been positive for 12 years, and one noticable symptom he has is that he bruiseseasily, and bruises take a long time to heal. Suddenly, I am having the same...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Hi. Thank you for your question.In your post, you state that you have tested HIV negative. If you aretesting HIV negative at the time that you're showing symptoms, it indicatesthat your symptoms are not HIV or AIDS related. An infected person... Read more »

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KNOWING SPREADING HIV AROUND

Posted by Jazzy1973, 5 Replies

wHY DO PEOPLE KEEP GOING AROUND SPREADING THIS TO EACH OTHER KNOWING U HAVE THIS?

wHY CAN'T SOME ONE FIND SOME ONE THAT HAS HIV TOO?

QUESTIONS I ASS BECAUSE I KNOW SOMEONE WHO GOES ON LINE AND MEET PEOPLE AND HAVE SEX WITH THEM& AFTER THEY GET... Read more »

Why does HIV continue to spread?

Posted by Anonymous, 6 Replies

I saw a report on my local TV station that said that HIV continues to spread in American cities. Why aren't young people heeding the message and using condoms? Is unprotected sex worth a life time of being on toxic drugs? Read more »

Man who spreads lies about HIV origins

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Here's one crazy man who's spreading lies about HIV, particularly in the black community: http://www.all-natural.com/horo-3.html

I guess it's easier to believe in these theories than the fact that HIV spread from chimps to humans and throughout the... Read more »

Spreading HIV PLEASE HELP!!

Posted by anon11111, 3 Replies

I just found out my daughter has HIV/AIDS a few hours ago.
She is still sleeping around with ANYONE and ANYTHING that moves! PLEASE ADVISE ME as to what to do! I have a moral obligation to report her but to whom?
She had sex with her ex, the father... Read more »

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