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Can i get aids from sharing a same cigarette or straw or cup with an infected person?

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HIV: This virus is only transmissible by intimate contact, either sexually, sharing needles, blood or tissue transfer, infants breast feeding from an infected mother, fetus infected in utero. Cannot be transmitted casually or by fomites (inanimate objects).

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Answered 5/9/2013

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