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Pool Water Should I Get Tested
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Can you use condoms in swimming pools, showers and hot tubs?Is it safe to use condoms underwater, like in a swimming pool, a shower, or a hot tub?...
Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.
Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program
Thank you for your question. I am not aware of any studies looking at the effectiveness of condoms when sexual contact takes place in swimming pools, in the shower, or in hot tubs (Jacuzzi's etc.). Basically all I can say is that if you will...
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"the blood pool" workplace HIV exposureHi Doc, you are truly the best. Keep up the great work.I keep trying to convince a friend that... Read more »Microbicide delay for greater vaccine test pool? (MICROBICIDES, 2009)I recently heard a Policy Director of an ASO say that introduction of microbocides to the public... Read more »
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Dangerous Liaisons: Rape and HIVPink flowers floating the pool, blossoms opening in love. In a ritual for women of the Yucatan Peninsula in Central America, a hollow is made in the earth and a woman bathes there naked in water up to her breasts. Other women cover the surface of... Read more »
For Gays, Straight Sex Talk -- A Boston Health Agency Tests New Outreach Route OnlineIn the America Online chatroom, the outreach worker logs on as his alter ego, bostonhotmale, and introduces himself to the pool of strangers. "Interested in chatting with anyone with questions," he types in the room. "Instant message us with... Read more »
How Is the Water?Our indelicate yet timely subject this issue is Cryptosporidium parvum ( C. parvum ). "Crypto," as it is often called, is a microscopic parasite that often lives in the intestines of infected animals and humans and released in bowel movements. It is... Read more »
HIV-Positive Nevada Man Files Complaint After Mobile Home Park Prohibits Him From Using PoolAn HIV-positive Nevada man has filed a complaint with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development against Carefree Country Mobile Home Park in Clark County, Nev., where he lives, after the park earlier this year sent him a letter saying... Read more »
Connect With Others
The Miracle which I need as water
Posted by Leon88, 3 Replies
hey people, I am 24 years old bisexual guy. I have a boyfriend since September 10, 2012... We had really interesting and different relationship and that's why I've decided to have unprotected sex with him. I was bottom only two times with him and...
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blood at swimming pool
Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies
Someone had cut himself at the swimming pool and there were bloody footsteps on the floor (fresh blood). I think I accidentally stepped on the blood (I was bare-footed). Is this a possible way of infection? I didn't see any big cuts in my feet.
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How long does HIV survive in cold water?
Posted by jacob123, 2 Replies
So i was playing basketball, and i drank from this random guy's water bottle( cold water). What are the chances of catching any sort of HIV?
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Dirty Toilet Rim Water in Eye
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
I was recently went to a unisex toilet, and somehow managed to have some water splash from the rim into my eye. The rim was pretty dirty but didn't have any noticeable blood, but it could have had other body fluids on it. What is the risk here? I...
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