Question 1

does hiv is easy to catch it?

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It's difficult but..: Having unprotected passive anal intercourse with an HIV positive man not taking treatment gives you about a 1% chance per event of catching the virus. Other activities are progressively less risky. During the year when there was no effective rx, household contacts simply didn't catch the virus and even husband-and-wife more often than not did not infect each other despite no protection.

Question 2

can i catch hiv from a shared shaving stick?

Accepted Answer

: If it is contaminated by blood from infected person and you have even a minor cut-yes.Best to avoid doing that

Question 3

how do people catch hiv and what are the symptoms?

Accepted Answer

Unprotected sex, IDU: Hiv infection is acquired through unprotected sex, injection drug use, or transfusion of hiv-infected blood products.  As HIV infection progresses untreated and one's immune system worsens, one can develop aids.  The symptoms can be very vague, including fever, rash, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, though many people are entirely asymptomatic, meaning they have absolutely no symptoms whatsoever.

Question 4

can you catch hiv from a women who has a dry vergins ?

Accepted Answer

Yes: The amount of lubrication has no correlation to risk of HIV transmission.

Question 5

what is the likelihood of catching hiv from a woman in australia?

Accepted Answer

Depends: It greatly depends on how high risk the woman was; commercial sex worker? Iv drug use? How many sexual partners? Nature of sexual intercourse? If you are concerned and had a high risk exposure, you should get checked with your doctor regardless of how good you think your chances are of missing infection.

Question 6

can you catch hiv or any stdo by digging in the trash no open cuts or sores?

Accepted Answer

Unlikely: Depends on what was in the trash. Unless there was blood stained materials or excrement in the trash you are not at risk.

Question 7

can you catch hiv of surfaces? if you sat somewhere naked and some1 before you with hiv sat there naked too & left fluids can you get hiv this way?

Accepted Answer

No risk at all: Nobody ever catches HIV from blood or body fluids in the environment. Don't worry about it. The virus dies quickly when outside the body, especially when fluids dry out. And even with wet fluids, not enough virus can reach susceptible cells deep inside the body. You will never be at risk for HIV except by unprotected vaginal or anal sex, or sharing drug injection equipment with other people.

Question 8

can you catch hiv from urine?

Accepted Answer

No: I am not sure what you would do with urine to think that HIV could be spread through it. The answer is no even if you drink it.

Question 9

can you catch hiv from stepping on a needle?

Accepted Answer

Depends: Only if needle is freshly infected with HIV positive blood. Hiv virus does not tolerate very well exposure to environment and dies within minutes to hours. If in doubt get checked.

Question 10

will people reach the stage of aids in today's world even after catching hiv very early?

Accepted Answer

HIV can be stopped: If someone is identified relatively early, before the immune system is severely damaged (AIDS), the virus can be stopped.  I have many patients who are controlled on medication - their virus is essentially 'locked away' thanks to the meds and I never suspect they will get AIDS. This is the good news about HIV treatment.  The key is to get 'identified' as infected or not before the damage occurs.

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