Hey… this is a really dumb question… 😅 Say I was getting tested for HIV at a free clinic, and I placed my Iphone facedown on its screen on the table people get tested on. Hypothetically, say there was dried blood or HIV particles on the table that made contact with my phone’s screen and hours later I scratch my face that has open open wounds. Could dry blood or particles from a testing table stick on my phone’s screen and then pass to my fingers which I used to scratch my face? 😅

von–gelmini:

enoughtohold:

not a chance.

think about it. that would make HIV almost as easy to get as the flu. if that were how HIV were transmitted, who wouldn’t be HIV positive?

HIV is transmitted through sex (virtually exclusively penetrative sex), needle sharing (and in the past, blood products/transfusions), and mother-to-baby (if the mother is not on treatment). that’s it. those are the ways.

you do not need to be afraid of being somewhere HIV+ people have been, or touching them, eating with them, or kissing them.

i’m sorry it took some time to answer this, but i struggled with it because i and those before me have been trying for over 30 years to make it common knowledge that HIV is NOT spread through casual contact. it was depressing to see this. i’m sorry your schools and community failed you by not making this clear to you. i hope now you’ll take some time to do some research and learn more.

I saw other people on my dash worrying about those Stuart Semple T-Shirts printed with gay men’s blood that says “This Shirt Is Printed With the Blood of Gay Men.” They were fretting furiously over how ‘unsafe’ it was. Which is EXACTLY missing the whole point of the T-shirts and what they were trying to say. You cannot contract HIV from T-shirts printed with blood-formulated ink. The process would kill any virus plus the virus doesn’t live that long outside of the body or optimal preservation techniques.

HIV is not that easy to transmit! We’ve been trying to educate people on this since forever ffs and to see that there is still so much panic and misinformation is a criminal failure of our governments.

They want everyone to think that you can “catch AIDS” just by being /near/ a gay man. They want us to be seen as “plague rats”. To be ostracized and viewed with suspicion. They want sex, ALL sex, to be seen as IMMINENT DEATH!!!!!

It’s not the questioner’s fault, nor the fault of the people on my dash. They were the victims of a deliberate propaganda war. Because trust me, the lack of accurate information is NO MISTAKE. It is deliberate misinformation and homophobic/serophobic propaganda. It is Fucking Evil and there is evil intent behind it.