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Is washing clothes by hand with water and soap and hanging it in the sun for a few hours sufficient to kill hiv ?
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No risk, no worries: Soap and water instantaneously kills HIV. But even without washing, there would be no risk. HIV is never transmitted by contact with clothing, even if contaminated with blood or other body fluids from someone with HIV. No worries!
Answered 4/19/2019
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