Have you done your HIV test this year?

[italiandragon]

Many people think to do not be at risk even if they are not drug users or they are virgin or they do not have sex without protections.

Is it worth it the risk to find too late that you got infected?

I advice everyone to have a test , possibly every year so that IF the result won`t be good , at least you`ll have more chances to live longer, even 20 or 30 years these days, plus you`ll avoid to infect your partner or other persons by mistake.

Please read this news , but be aware that there is an image of a person having a blood test, so if you don`t like to see a needle then don`t open the link below.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/AIDS/story?id=3647075&page=1

 

[shockie]

:lol:

 

[Broker]

I'm HIV neutral

 

[BrandonG]

My blood was tested last feb for other reasons than HIV only. I really doubt i'd receive it though as my heroin needles are ALWAYS new and I only have sex with prostitutes while I wear a condom.

 

[bro]

Right now involved in domain tasting , HIV test some other time

 

[Broker]

[Thread Deleted] :hehe:

 

[Phoebe_]

I'm scared of those possibilities

 

[briman1970]

that is quite obvious... by having sex with your barber

Brilliant!

My blood was tested last feb for other reasons than HIV only. I really doubt i'd receive it though as my heroin needles are ALWAYS new and I only have sex with prostitutes while I wear a condom.

Oh Lord... please stop... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Instead the situacion of blood in your food may be an additional one to my above written rare cases to be at risk. Surely if the food is cooked no worries but if blood is fresh , HIV viruses can live up to about 15 hours exposed to air.

Where are you getting your info? You are more likely to get attacked by a land-shark than to contract HIV from a cook at a restaurant. The risk is so negligible that you may as well redirect your focus on whether or not you will die in a terrorist attack or get struck by lightning.

From the CDC...

"How HIV Is and Is Not Transmitted:

HIV is a fragile virus. It cannot live for very long outside the body. As a result, the virus is not transmitted through day-to-day activities such as shaking hands, hugging, or a casual kiss. You cannot become infected from a toilet seat, drinking fountain, doorknob, dishes, drinking glasses, food, or pets. You also cannot get HIV from mosquitoes.

HIV is primarily found in the blood, semen, or vaginal fluid of an infected person. HIV is transmitted in 3 main ways:

* Having sex (anal, vaginal, or oral) with someone infected with HIV.
* Sharing needles and syringes with someone infected with HIV.
* Being exposed (fetus or infant) to HIV before/during birth or through breast feeding.

HIV also can be transmitted through blood infected with HIV. However, since 1985, all donated blood in the United States has been tested for HIV. Therefore, the risk for HIV infection through the transfusion of blood or blood products is extremely low. The U.S. blood supply is considered among the safest in the world. For more information view our question and answer on blood safety.

Risk Factors for HIV Transmission:

You may be at increased risk for infection if you have;

* injected drugs or steroids, during which equipment (such as needles, syringes, cotton, water) and blood were shared with others.
* had unprotected vaginal, anal, or oral sex (that is, sex without using condoms) with men who have sex with men, multiple partners, or anonymous partners.
* exchanged sex for drugs or money.
* been given a diagnosis of, or been treated for, hepatitis, tuberculosis (TB), or a sexually transmitted disease (STD) such as syphilis.
* received a blood transfusion or clotting factor during 1978–1985.
* had unprotected sex with someone who has any of the risk factors listed above."

If HIV could live for 15 hours outside the human body, we'd all be screwed... no pun intended.

I`m sorry for your mother and wish her good luck in her fight with Hep C.

Thank you for your kind comment.

 

[italiandragon]

Brilliant!

Oh Lord... please stop... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Where are you getting your info? You are more likely to get attacked by a land-shark than to contract HIV from a cook at a restaurant. The risk is so negligible that you may as well redirect your focus on whether or not you will die in a terrorist attack or get struck by lightning.

From the CDC...

"How HIV Is and Is Not Transmitted:

HIV is a fragile virus. It cannot live for very long outside the body. As a result, the virus is not transmitted through day-to-day activities such as shaking hands, hugging, or a casual kiss. You cannot become infected from a toilet seat, drinking fountain, doorknob, dishes, drinking glasses, food, or pets. You also cannot get HIV from mosquitoes.

HIV is primarily found in the blood, semen, or vaginal fluid of an infected person. HIV is transmitted in 3 main ways:

* Having sex (anal, vaginal, or oral) with someone infected with HIV.
* Sharing needles and syringes with someone infected with HIV.
* Being exposed (fetus or infant) to HIV before/during birth or through breast feeding.

HIV also can be transmitted through blood infected with HIV. However, since 1985, all donated blood in the United States has been tested for HIV. Therefore, the risk for HIV infection through the transfusion of blood or blood products is extremely low. The U.S. blood supply is considered among the safest in the world. For more information view our question and answer on blood safety.

Risk Factors for HIV Transmission:

You may be at increased risk for infection if you have;

* injected drugs or steroids, during which equipment (such as needles, syringes, cotton, water) and blood were shared with others.
* had unprotected vaginal, anal, or oral sex (that is, sex without using condoms) with men who have sex with men, multiple partners, or anonymous partners.
* exchanged sex for drugs or money.
* been given a diagnosis of, or been treated for, hepatitis, tuberculosis (TB), or a sexually transmitted disease (STD) such as syphilis.
* received a blood transfusion or clotting factor during 1978–1985.
* had unprotected sex with someone who has any of the risk factors listed above."

If HIV could live for 15 hours outside the human body, we'd all be screwed... no pun intended.

Thank you for your kind comment.

Hi Brian, you`re welcome, I got the info about 15 hours from a very good virus expert from the USA but I can`t find back her name, it was from some University.
My question was: "if there was an amount of infected blood big like your hand on a surface, how long would you have to wait before all virures would die?"

Obviously for smaller amounts of blood the time would be much less.

I always thought that there were misinformation about how long the HIV virus can survive and this may be to do not scare the public.

 

[briman1970]

Hi Brian, you`re welcome, I got the info about 15 hours from a very good virus expert from the USA but I can`t find back her name, it was from some University.
My question was: "if there was an amount of infected blood big like your hand on a surface, how long would you have to wait before all virures would die?"

Obviously for smaller amounts of blood the time would be much less.

I always thought that there were misinformation about how long the HIV virus can survive and this may be to do not scare the public.

From the CDC:

- Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well in the environment, making the possibility of environmental transmission remote.

- HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host, except under laboratory conditions, therefore, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.

- No one has been identified as infected with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface.

- There are no known risks of HIV transmission to co-workers, clients, or consumers from contact in industries such as food-service establishments.

- There is no evidence of transmission from a personal-service worker to a client or vice versa.

- The CDC is unaware of any instances of HIV transmission through tattooing or body piercing.

- The CDC has investigated only one case of HIV infection THAT MAY BE ATTRIBUTED to contact with blood during open-mouth kissing.

- Contact with saliva, tears, or sweat has never been shown to result in transmission of HIV.

- There is no evidence of HIV transmission through insects.

- Although HIV has been transmitted between family members in a household setting, this type of transmission is very rare. These transmissions are believed to have resulted from contact between skin or mucous membranes and infected blood.

- There has been only one instance of patients being infected by a health care worker in the United States.

- No new or potentially unknown routes of HIV transmission have been recorded, despite a national sentinel system designed to detect just such an occurrence.

 

[Porte]

briman,

Well educated, and useful information.

Have you done your HIV test this year?

Basically I have never made it.

What I know about HIV is that It can be transmitted through main things
Having direct Sex makes 90% of the cases. Plus taking drugs, transmitting blood, or getting injection.

But what I understood well, is that the virus can't live outside blood itself for minutes. So It's nearly impossible to be transmitted through Air. else, We are died by now.

The infected blood has to access your body system to infect you. So If someone is basically hurt and assuming he is infected with HIV, you do not get infected dealing with him unless you too are hurt and his blood was somehow transmitted into your bleeding part. Low odds really

So basically, Sex is the main route for HIV.. or sharing drugs by injections.
The statement that says It can live 15 hours is a No. No. It can live few minutes outside blood. and it's a very weak virus, meaning If a teethbrush is infected and it is cleaned well, the virus dies. Remember the virus lives in Blood only, not outside blood.

 

[italiandragon]

briman,

Well educated, and useful information.


Basically I have never made it.

What I know about HIV is that It can be transmitted through main things
Having direct Sex makes 90% of the cases. Plus taking drugs, transmitting blood, or getting injection.

But what I understood well, is that the virus can't live outside blood itself for minutes. So It's nearly impossible to be transmitted through Air. else, We are died by now.

The infected blood has to access your body system to infect you. So If someone is basically hurt and assuming he is infected with HIV, you do not get infected dealing with him unless you too are hurt and his blood was somehow transmitted into your bleeding part. Low odds really

So basically, Sex is the main route for HIV.. or sharing drugs by injections.
The statement that says It can live 15 hours is a No. No. It can live few minutes outside blood. and it's a very weak virus, meaning If a teethbrush is infected and it is cleaned well, the virus dies. Remember the virus lives in Blood only, not outside blood.

2 Australian sisters were diagnosed with the same HIV virus (there are some sub-families of the HIV virus) , it seems they shared blazor....and I doubt they will have shaved their legs within 2 minutes from each other. One infected the other sister anyway.

 

[Pred]

2 Australian sisters were diagnosed with the same HIV virus , it seems they shared blazor ...

i had no idea school uniform could be so dangerous :hehe:

nb: sorry, couldn't resist, know this is a very serious subject. wrists slapped

 

[Porte]

Why think they shaved their legs in the same minutes? Why not say.. that blood existed in the tool so as long as virus is inside blood and blood is still there, they get infected whatever the distance time.

 

[maximum]

Let me get this straight, since I apparently missed something some of you have been trying to say here.

You quote statistics (no matter from whom) saying you trust a bunch of numbers. You trust your doctors/dentist (much less some rushed or hap-hazzard nurse or intern), your spouse or lover, your friend who years ago helped you with that small cut, your tatoo artist, your parents if you are young, the quality of your condoms, etc., etc. ? You trust all of these enough to not know that a hidden killer has a death warrent with your name signed on it? Excuses and "rational" for not being tested is costing lives - AIDS/HIV, among other deadly illnesses. If it takes to much time to get tested, don't worry because you might not have much left anyway; and, if you're scared of needles, don't panic, because being told you are now going to have to fight to just stay alive day-to-day because you didn't find out early enough will teach you the meaning of fear and panic. Tell those excuses to your loved ones in your last will and testament.

Get tested, atleast every so often, REGARDLESS of your "lifestyle". Not doing so may leave you with a shorter one than you're willing to face. "I didn't think I was at risk" needn't be something you'll be saying from your deathbed.

maximum gets off the soap-box

 

[StoneRoses]

i had no idea school uniform could be so dangerous :hehe:

nb: sorry, couldn't resist, know this is a very serious subject. wrists slapped

ROFL

 

[briman1970]

Get tested, atleast every so often, REGARDLESS of your "lifestyle". Not doing so may leave you with a shorter one than you're willing to face. "I didn't think I was at risk" needn't be something you'll be saying from your deathbed.

I trust my spouse enough not to get tested. She trusts me enough. We are willing to take "the risk" by not getting tested because the risk for us is virtually nil. Stating that everyone should get tested is an emotional statement not based on facts.

Why think they shaved their legs in the same minutes? Why not say.. that blood existed in the tool so as long as virus is inside blood and blood is still there, they get infected whatever the distance time.

Not true.

...and I doubt they will have shaved their legs within 2 minutes from each other.

Come on... If you don't know the exact circumstances, why would you say this? Maybe they were going to the prom and were in a hurry.

 

[Daniel]

Virgin, don't take drugs.

Don't do anything of these: Doing tatoos/piercing , going to the dentist , have a surgery or other hospital treatments , go to the barber ,

Count me out.

 

[shockie]

dan, don't be a wuss and go to the dentist. :tu:

 

[briman1970]

Virgin, don't take drugs.

Don't do anything of these: Doing tatoos/piercing , going to the dentist , have a surgery or other hospital treatments , go to the barber ,

Count me out.

Yes, you do need to visit the dentist every year or two if you want to keep your teeth into your golden years.

 

[Keral_Patel]

Yes, you do need to visit the dentist every year or two if you want to keep your teeth into your golden years.

Well first it was just AIDS problem and now even my teeth are at risk

How about managing it with that false teeth set If someone is using them let me know their experiences. Are they good enough or does our technology still lacks in that area.