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Is It Possible To Get AIDS From Touching Spit
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uneducated question scared (SPIT)hi Dr Bob.What you do for the people is amazing! My question is weird and i couldnt find anything similar in the archives.Ok, I had a 3 year old kid at work hiv status unknown. I was messing with the kid to make the kid laugh and he spit in my...
Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
Hi Dan,The three-year-old actually gobbed you in the face with a hacked-up loogie??? Hmmm . . . apparently he wasn't impressed with your efforts to make him laugh.You can relax, Danny Boy. The HIV-transmission risk from spit is nonexistent,...
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spitting on penis (SALIVA, 2009)dear doc,i have read your site and you are doing a great job by helping out people in need and i... Read more »HIV in spit?I was at work today and a customer was very heated that I wouldn't allow him to use a credit... Read more »
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Open Space to Respond to Sentencing of HIV-Positive Man for SpittingOn May 14 Willie Campbell, a person living with HIV, was convicted and sentenced to a 35 year prison term for "harrassment of a public servant" - and spitting on a police officer - in Dallas, Texas. Since the jury determined his saliva to be a... Read more »
Spit and Other "Deadly Weapons"In May of this year, a 42-year-old HIV positive man in Texas who spat at a police officer during an arrest received a cumulative sentence of 35 years by a Dallas court after a jury was convinced that the man had used his saliva as a "deadly weapon."... Read more »
60 Million Africans Have Been Touched by AIDS, Says UNAIDS Executive DirectorMaputo -- By continuing to devastate Africa's economies, communities, and development, HIV/AIDS has undoubtedly become Africa's biggest challenge. "Sixty million Africans have been touched by AIDS in the most immediate way. They are either living... Read more »
Sex in the Age of AIDSPhysical intimacy is as essential to well-being as proper nourishment. All human beings need to touch and be touched -- and people with HIV may need that contact more than most, because all too often they are denied their fair share of physical... Read more »
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Spit dangerous?
Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies
I feel this is a stupid question, but a healthcare worker at a local hiv clinic scared me. I have a friend who is hiv+ and recently he spit in my face (accidentily) and it got into my eyes. He's not on any meds. The healthcare worker said that I...
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Possibly pregnant...
Posted by Vampyre, 3 Replies
Hi...I am a 26 year old, HIV+ female. I have been diagnosed 4 months but have had no tests as to what my viral load or cd4 count is or anything. Mainly because I have avoided going anywhere near the clinic to talk about it. Also, I am on no... Read more » Possible transmission
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
Has anyone heard about getting HIV from a sore on the skin, say from blood or fluids getting on the skin and then getting inside through a sore or something elseRead more » newly infected could possibly have aids
Posted by johnjsteinbeck, 1 Reply
i was recently infected but belive i am an extremely fast progressor. after sero my immune system was basically nil. and it has slowly gotten better.However i now have early symptomatic signs of hiv. I have recurrent bouts of angular cheiltis,... Read more »
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