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HIV facts/myths
YOU CAN NOT BECOME INFECTED WITH HIV THROUGH:
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Giving blood at a blood bank. |
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Everyday contact with infected people at school, work, home,
or anywhere else. |
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Preparing or serving food or beverages. Food is not a vehicle
for transmitting HIV. |
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Using toilets, shaking hands, sharing utensils, phones, or clothing.
It can not be passed on by cutlery, cups, or other objects that
someone who is HIV positive has used. |
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Sharing computers, telephones, tools, papers, water fountains, vehicles, uniforms, chewed pencils, desks, toilet seats, showers,
coffee pots or eating facilities. |
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Sweat, tears, sneezes, coughs, or urine. |
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Kissing. Today we have been given no information of documented cases of HIV transmission through kissing. |
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Mosquito bites. HIV does not live in a mosquito, and it is not transmitted through a mosquito’s salivary glands like other diseases such as, malaria or yellow fever. You will not get it from bed bugs,
lice, flies, or other insects. |
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A swimming pool. |
YOU CAN ONLY BECOME INFECTED WITH HIV THROUGH:
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Unprotected sexual intercourse (either vaginal or anal) with
someone who is HIV positive. |
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Unprotected oral sex with someone who is HIV positive. |
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Blood to blood contact. |
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Vertically, from an HIV positive woman to her baby during
the course of pregnancy, birth or during breast-feeding. |
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