Is It Possible To Get Hiv By Getting Poked By A Hiv Needle

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Reducing the Risk of Getting HIV From Injection Drug Use

What Is the Risk? How Can Transmission Be Prevented? Injection Drugs & Hepatitis Needle Exchange Programs Drugs, Sex and HIV Transmission What Is the Risk? It is well documented that people who share syringes are at risk of being infected with HIV. Sharing syringes allows a direct exchange of blood from one person's body into the bloodstream of another and is one of the most efficient ways to spread blood-borne...

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Transmission of HIV From Being Poked With a Needle At a Rave

Hello,I've been reading ur website and had a question myself regarding the transmission of HIV through needles. I was at a rave party about 6 months ago, when I came back home I noticed a bruise on my left wrist. I was so scared that I might...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Dear John, This is a big "if". Although cases of documented transmission through needle sticks exist, they have been few and mostly among health care workers, e.g., nurses or lab technicians who knew for a fact that they had been stuck... Read more »

Dirty EMG needle poke.

Dr. Please Im going insane, On January 24, 2001 I believe I was poked with a solid (EMG) needle, I was tested 71/2 weeks after and the tests revealed I was negative. What are the possibilities of me catching anything, the time lapse of me and...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

The likelihood of developing HIV from an EMG needle is incredibly remote. I would really doubt you are HIV positive, based on the information you provide in your query. The current recommendation is that you get tested up to 6 months after the... Read more »

needle poke at a rave

hey doc. needle poked me at a rave about six months ago at EDC 2009. or i think because i woke up the next day and saw a a little red bump on my bicep and a black dot in the middle. about two three weeks after that i had a fever for a day, and it...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Ah yes, another "needle poke at a rave." This truly has become a QTND (question that never dies)! Doesn't anyone just dance or have clandestine nookie at raves anymore? It seems like raves have become overpopulated with deranged... Read more »

Help! Might have been poked by a needle or something?

I was on the escalator in the mall when I felt a sudden pain on my back (might have been my pimples because I've got many on my back). Then a man holding a backpack with one hand walked right next to me while there was still two more pulses of...

Response from Richard Cordova III

Test Positive Aware Network

Hi there:I suppose it's possible that this man was walking around stabbing people with a needle filled with HIV infected blood, but it's highly unlikely and I doubt that this happened. I'd hazard a guess that you've had... Read more »

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Hiv needle Poke?

Posted by Shakur251, 2 Replies

I had a few sewing needles in a box on the bus and a 2 teenagers wanted to see them so i let them. The kids started poking themselves with the needles and drew blood. I asked them if it hurt and in reply with one of the needles he lightly poked me... Read more »

HIV and needles

Posted by QP95, 1 Reply

My boyfriend is HIV positive and has an undetectable viral load. However, he has recently started giving himself injections of HGH. He asked for me to do it today and I did so. However, afterwards when I was putting the cap on, the needle somehow... Read more »

poked with a dirty lancet that had hiv

Posted by worriedmommy, 1 Reply

i am worried sick i was poked by a very mean person who has hiv am i am worried sick can u catch via a lancet Read more »

HIV in Needles

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Have any of you sat on an IV needle before ? have you heard of anyone sitting on a needle and contracted HIV ? What are the chances of sitting on one ? if i did sit on one would i know ? Read more »

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