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Expert: Kristen Brannock, MPH - 10/12/2007


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Can you get HIV/AIDS from the following things...

Setting on A toilet seat

Someone having bleeding gums and biting you (breaking the skin but not making you bleed.)

Touching someone else's blood but having no cuts on yourself.

Setting somewhere a person with it has been.

Eating somewhere a person with it has touched.

Thank you, I'm a hyphocondriac.  

Answer
Antime that infected blood, semen, vaginal fluid and/or breast milk enter another person's body, transmission is possible.

You cannot get it from sitting on a toilet seat, sitting on a chair, or eating after anyone.

The others just depend on if any blood was transferred or not.

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Kristen Brannock, MPH

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I can answer questions concerning HIV infection and AIDS. This includes ways it can and cannot be transmitted, how it is treated, how it affects the body and methods to protect yourself. I can also answer questions concerning safer sex and contraception.

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I trained with the Red Cross to become an HIV/AIDS counselor and was a member of CARES- Carolina AIDS Resource Education Service in college. I have an MPH in Health Behavior and Health Education and conduct research in the field of HIV prevention. I also take continuing education courses in HIV/STI prevention periodically.

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Master of Public Health Health Behavior and Health Education UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (formerly UNC-CH School of Public Health)

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