Dec
02
Another community message brought to you by CLEO, via pelf-ism is contagious *winks*
You CAN’T get HIV from:
- toilet seats
- eating utensils or meals cooked by a HIV-infected person
- phones
- drinking fountains
- exercise equipments or swimming pools
- hugging or cheek kissing an infected person
- sexual enjoyment with only skin contact, such as massage or body stroking
- mosquito bites
- donating blood
You CAN get HIV from:
- infected semen and pre-ejaculation fluid
- infected vaginal fluids, including menstrual blood
- breast milk - causing transmission from mother to child
- infected blood or blood products - e.g. a blood transfusion that has not been screened for HIV
- needles contaminated with HIV infected blood - used for injecting drugs, body piercing or tattoos
- sharing toothbrushes or razors with an infected person but only if they have a cut and you also have a cut which leads to direct blood-to-blood contact
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Good post sis - once I got this major scare in Penang LoL (ask me about it someday) and decided to read up on PWHA and how the disease spreads. For example, blood and bodily fluids containing the virus does not survive long outside its host, and that full blood contact must be established for a certain period before you can get a chance of getting infected.
Good to raise awareness on this. Hats (and shells) off to you.
pelf: Hhhaha, thank you very much. I am also just doing what little things I can to spread the awareness on AIDS
on the sidebar, i found you are a very loyal supporter to CLEO. hiak hiak hiak~
pelf: Not exactly as I don’t even subscribe to it. I read CLEO once in a while, but especially when I have to be at the airport. There was this one occassion where I finished reading the whole magazine while waiting for a flight!