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Touching An Open Scab Could I Have HIV
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Ask the Experts
hiv or hep from scabis it possible to get hep b or c or hiv from an infected person by shaking hands if say i had a scab on myne or having them sit on my bedding...
Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.
Tufts University School of Medicine
No, we are only concerned about active blood exposure to an open wound. Dr. M...
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Nail Clippers, scabs, and HIV transmissionI have a habit of using nail clippers to peel of scabs on my body..which usually results in... Read more »Touched by a lap dancer - now paranoid about HIV!!!Hi Doc,I had a small cut on the back of my hand. Just prior to going into the club my scab came off... Read more »
Articles
Sex and Living with HIVSexual intimacy is essential to well being. All human beings need to touch and be touched. Yet people living with HIV are often denied touch because of other people's ignorance; or they themselves shy away from touch because of shame, pain, or fear... Read more »
As HIV Vaccine Conference Opens, Experts Appeal for Sustained Commitment to Global Fight Against DiseaseExperts, gathered for the start of a four-day conference on HIV vaccines in Paris, called upon donors to maintain their funding support for the fight against HIV/AIDS despite the global economy, Agence France-Presse reports. "The financial crisis... Read more »
Vermont: Pownal Woman Will Open Home to People With AIDSRevolutionary, innkeeper, caregiver: Sunshine Wohl is taking on all those roles as she fearlessly opens her spruced-up Pownal, Vt., farmhouse to AIDS patients who are facing the end of life. Residents will stay free at Wohl's Chrysalis Community,... Read more »
New York: Dental Clinic Specializes in HIV/AIDS Patients, Cuts Out Fear of Seeing DentistLast fall, the nonprofit group Housing Works opened a full-service health clinic in Brooklyn exclusively for women with HIV/AIDS. A dental clinic housed in the facility, located at 57 Willoughby St., also accepts male patients. Many of the people... Read more »
Connect With Others
Fingerring and touching anus opening
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
Please help me I am making myself sick with worry. I Fingered a girl of unknown HIV status (not inside her but just the vulva). She briefly rubbed her vagina. About 10 minutes later she pressed my anal opening with the same finger. Is there a risk...
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if tip of penis just touches opening of penis???
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
If the tip of my penis went between someones crack and touched the opening of the anal wall without a condom, is it possible to get hiv from this, and if so, what are the odds of it happening. I am circumsized and live in oklahoma, if that has...
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My child touch blood of my HIV+ Husband
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
My husband is HIV+He cut his finger bad and ran into the bathroom and he was dripping blood on the floor. My young daugher touch the blood and ran to the basement ( I was washing clothes) and said "daddy is bleeding, daddy is bleeding") Although im... Read more » Blemishes and scabs- HIV?
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
I had a low risk exsposure. I have a bunch of little neeldepoint-sized scabs all over my legs and arms, and I have many small light brown blemishes. Are these HIV symptoms?
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