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Hi Posted: 03-09-06 17:38pm
Hi,
i have some questions...Not about me..But
about a friend of mine and
i'm really concerned....I'm 23 and I have
a daughter who is 18 months
old and my friend recently told me her ex
b/f she was pregnant by
has full blown aids and she had
unprotected sex by him but didn't know
he had aids till after they had sex he
told her he had aids....And she mis-
carried twins....And she said she
supposivley got tested for aids but
came up negative...Is that possible to be
negative of aids when u had
unprotected sex with someone for a year
who has full blown aids? I'm
really concerned about this for my health
and my daughters health and
i'm worried about my friend here......Can
someone please give me some
advice or somethin....Thanks
babyblue
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Finess150
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Hiv Posted: 03-09-06 17:57pm
First, let's clear up an important point.
You don't become infected with aids, you
become infected with hiv. Aids is a
condition someone is in if they're immune
system is below a certain point when they
have hiv. Hiv is a virus, and someone who
has aids is an hiv+ person whose immune
system is failing because of the hiv
virus.
Since your friend was having unprotected
sex with someone who is hiv+, this does
put them at risk. Every time a person has
unprotected sex with an hiv+ person, there
is roughly a 1% to 3% risk. After a year
of regular unprotected sex, hiv should be
a serious concern.
Your friend must have an hiv test at
least three months after the last time she
had unprotected sex. She must wait three
months because that it is the recognised
maximum amount of time it takes for the
body to produce hiv antibodies (the immune
system response), and then for the test to
find these antibodies (although most
people show these detectable antibodies
within six weeks). Three months gives a
definite result.
Best wishes.
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babyblue82
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Hi Posted: 03-09-06 18:03pm
Ok...Thanks for the advice.....But my
friend seems to think she doesn't
have anything just from the results of one
test....I told her she should
get tested again because it takes awhile
for it to show up in some poeple.
She told me her ex has full blown
aids...So I dunno if u consider that hiv
or aids....And my husband is afraid to
even let her use our bathroom
and stuff because he's afraid he'll catch
the disease from her. Is that
possible?
Babyblue
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Finess150
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Aids Posted: 03-10-06 07:38am
As long as your friend has tested three
months after her last unprotected sexual
encounter, she can be sure of a negative
result. If it is less than three months,
she needs to test again when it is.
As I said before, if you have full blown
aids, you have the virus hiv and your
immune system is failing because of it.
Aids is really a condition as a result of
having hiv. Many people have hiv but not
aids, because their immune system is not
yet weakened to the point of having aids.
So someone with aids has hiv, and are the
in the state of having aids as a result.
Yes?
There is no way at all, ever, of becoming
infected by sharing the bathroom or other
every day environments. Hiv is an
extremely fragile virus which does not
survive being outside the body. This is
fact ok, so tell your misguided husband
that he is worrying for no reason.
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babyblue82
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Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 3 Location: midwest city,oklahoma
Hi Posted: 03-10-06 09:30am
Ok thanks again for the advice....I was
really worried myself because
i don't know a whole lot about hiv or
anything....I mean I know u can
catch it from unprotected sex and
all.....But when my husband was
worrying about her using our bath room I
wasn't sure if u could catch
it that way......One more question if u
don't mind? Can u catch hiv from
drinking after someone who might have it?
Because my friends as I told
u slept with her ex who has hiv and
anyways me and her had a soda one
time both the same kind....She had me hold
her can for her for a sec and
then came back to get it and I had
forgotten which one was hers and i
think I ended up drinkin the rest of her
soda....Which was half a can. Can
u catch hiv that way?
Babyblue
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Finess150
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No Posted: 03-10-06 11:15am
Absolutely no possibility whatsoever.
Listen, the only proven means of hiv
infection, that have come about after 25
years of intensive hiv research are
unprotected anal, vaginal and (more
rarely) oral sex, breasfeeding, medical
exposure, needle sharing and natal
transmission (from mother to baby). Hiv
does not survive outside the body. If it
was left on a soda can, it would become
inviable within seconds. If hiv were so
easy to catch, it would infect everyone of
us beofre too long, and that is not what
is happening.
Even if it did not die on environmental
surfaces (such as a soda can), your saliva
would destroy it. It is not usually
possible to become infected orally.
Hiv dies - it's what it's good at.
Reliable sources will tell you the same -
it is a difficult virus to catch. I
recommend you visit aidsmeds.Com, and post
your original question on the fears forum,
and your question about the soda can.
