How Long Does HIV Live On An Object

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Table of Contents What Are the Treatment Guidelines? Treatment Goals When to Start Treatment? What to Start With? Changing or Stopping Treatment Resistance Testing Taking Care of Yourself What Are the Treatment Guidelines? A branch of the US government, called the Department of Health and HumanServices (DHHS), has put together a set of HIV treatment guidelines. Theguidelines provide a lot of useful information to help...

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Can u get any diseases from sticking a foreign object up your rectum?

For example sticking a mouthpiece that is used to blow up work out balls that hasnt been used in awhile up your rectum?...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,You shoved a mouthpiece used to blow up workout balls up your butt??? Oh my. Please tell me you didn't think this was the way to get a "blow job!" Abstinence-only sex education strikes again!In general, it's not a good idea to... Read more »

Hiv from inanimate objects

I recently masturbated in a hotel room , the kind with hourly rates, and noticed when I was leaving that I had an open cut on my hand, probably, while in the room. Any risk of hiv infection from others whom may have been in the room before me? ...

Response from Shannon Southall

Rocky Mountain CARES

HiHIV dies once it is outside of the body. So if someone before you had used the room was living with HIV then no your chances of masturbating in the same room does not put you at risk of HIV transmission.Be well and stay safe, Shannon... Read more »

hiv on material objects

If I rented a lot of porn videos and say some of them have been touched with and had some sperm residue from previous borrowers,...am I at risk of getting HIV from touching the tapes and then masturbating?...

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

No, you are not considered to be at risk for infection. HIV is not known to be transmitted through casual contact because HIV does not survive long enough to cause infection when exposed to the <a... Read more »

masterbation with a flashlight, + donation////possible hiv risk? (MASTURBATING WITH FRUITS , VEGETABLES AND OTHER OBJECTS, 2009)

Hey doctor, I was so horny one day that i masterbated with a flashlight, a big mag-lite flashlight to be exact, and during my PERIOD, so im scared because i didnt clean the flashlight off before use, can hiv be transmitted from this? Because i dont...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,The big Mag-Lite flashlight was borrowed from a "friend of a friend's family" 10 months ago??? WOW! Remind me never to let you borrow my iPhone, favorite porno video or other prized possessions! But I digress . . . back to your... Read more »

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