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Is It Possible To Get AIDS From Urine
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Can I ge AIDS touching someones urinal?I work In a hospital doing food service. I'm not suppose to touch urinals or anything like that. I howerever had to clear the table. There was a urinal with a little bit a urine in it. Earlier in the day I had a hang nail and ripped it off. I...
Response from Lisa Hightow-Weidman, M.D., M.P.H.
University of North Carolina
Hello thereNo, touching the urinal would not pose a risk for HIV transmission. While HIV is found in the urine of an infected person, it is not possible to contract HIV from contact with the urine of an HIV-positive person because there are too few...
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A Clinical Guide to Supportive and Palliative Care for HIV/AIDS"Can it be in a world so full and busy that the loss of one creature makes a void in any heart so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of vast eternity can fill it up?"-- Charles Dickens Most of us answer "yes" to Dickens' question.... Read more »
AIDS 2010 Opinions: U.S. AIDS Funding; Human Rights and HIV; Invest in Primary Care; Microbicide Gel's PossibilitiesU.S. Should Spend More to Combat HIV Globally "Having met President [Barack] Obama, I'm confident that he's a man of conscience who shares my commitment to bringing hope and care to the world's poor. But I am saddened by his decision to spend... Read more »
Panel Discussion Looks Back on AIDS 2012, Explores Possible Topics for AIDS 2014Devex reports on a panel discussion held in Washington, D.C. Wednesday during which experts "looked back at the main surprises of the just-concluded [XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012)], and offered predictions on what the 2014 follow-up... Read more »
Uganda's HIV/AIDS Progress Possibly ExaggeratedThe HIV/AIDS "miracle" in Uganda was not faked, but it was possibly exaggerated and should be subjected to further investigation, according to the Economist . In a viewpoint article published in July in Lancet (2002;360:78-80) and reprinted in... Read more »
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Urine Drug Screening and SUSTIVA!
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
Dear "The Body" Family,This is GayCzar, writing on my husband's behalf. We know for a fact that we will end up writing a book on the account of our lives and recent occurrences - it is just too much to talk about, and we believe it could help... Read more » Urine Drug Screening and SUSTIVA!
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
Dear "The Body" Family,This is GayCzar, writing on my husband's behalf. We know for a fact that we will end up writing a book on the account of our lives and recent occurrences - it is just too much to talk about, and we believe it could help... Read 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 » changes in urine...
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
after my encounter I noticed a drastic change in my urine.It started looking dark and frothy.I know i need to get this checked out,but i was just wondering is this ever a sign of HIV infection?
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