how long will the HIV visus last out side the body need to clean a house that somebody with hiv live in?
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HIV virus cannot survive for more then a 20-40 seconds in open air, dont be afraid just start ur cleaning work
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There is no test for AIDS.  You can get a test for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.  It can take up to 6 months for enough antibodies to HIV to build up in the body for an HIV test to be reliable.  If you are worried that you have done things that put you at risk, like having sex with multiple partners,  shooting drugs or sex with people you do not know, I would recommend you be tested every six months.  I would also recommend learning more about HIV/AIDS and perhaps going to an agency in your community where you can ask questions in a private and confidential setting.  Check out this website for more information about HIV/AIDS, how to stay safe and where you can go for testing:  http://www.hivtest.org/index.htm \n\nI lost a friend to AIDS and I promised her that I would continue to educate people about prevention as she did before she died.  She was a lovely woman who dedicated the last months of her life to educating our community about HIV/AIDS and the importance of testing.  I miss her a whole lot.
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Three to six months from your last unsafe sexual experience is the amount of time you need to wait to get an HIV test. Depending on the source, you will get differing opinions about this "window" of time between infection and HIV antibody detection in a blood test. For example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends six months, some city and state health departments advise waiting two months, while the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), the oldest and largest HIV and AIDS service organization in the world, suggests a three-month waiting period. Alice thinks that six months is a long time to wait for HIV test results, and a negative or positive test result three months after possible HIV exposure can be considered reliable, although not 100 percent accurate.
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I WOULD SAY ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. YOU NEVER KNOW UNTIL IT CAN TRULY HAPPEN AND B PROVEN. I KNOW A PERSON CAN CARRY THE HIV VIRUSE IN THEIR BODY FOR 10-20 YEARS OR LONGER BEFORE ANYTHING LIKE AIDS SHOWS UP. SO THE ANSWER 2 UR QUESTION MAY LYE IN MORE YEARS OF RESEARCH, IN THE FUTURE....
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Hi!!\n\n"HIV is the virus that may causes AIDS. HIV belongs to a subset of viruses called retroviruses or slow virus. \n\n\n \nThis is because it is a progressive disease. HIV is entered through the body through the mucous membranes or thru blood to blood contact. \n\n\nOnce you get the virus it slowly begins to attack the immune system, killing off healthy immune system cells. The deterioration and destruction of immune function leads to AIDS. \n\n\nAIDS is the final stage of the HIV infection. A person is said to have AIDS when the cd4 counts drops below 200 and or a person has 1 or more opportunistic infections. The OIs, as they are called, are normal infections that a healthy person would be able to fight off. \n\n\nThe four stages of the HIV infection are as follows: \n\n\n1) The period following infection is called the window. It is called this because it reflect the window of time between infection and that which antibodies are devlop in a person. The HIV test looks for antibodies not the virus. \n\n\n2) The second stage is called seroconversion. This is when the body begins to develop lots of antibodies to fight off the virus in the body. During this period a person may have flu like sympton. Also during this period is said to be very infectious. \n\n\n3) The third stage is called symptom free. During this period a person may have no sympton what so ever. This can last any where from 6 months to well over ten years. The medical world is not sure why some people are living sympton free for so long. \n\n\n4) The final stage is called AIDS. This is the period when TCELL drop to below 200 and the OI"S are present. \n\n\nSo, as we see, HIV is a infection that will leads to AIDS. \n\n\nThe body immune system is slowly being attacked until it is destroyed and can't fight off infections. Once this happens a person is said to have AIDS. AIDS is the final stage."\n\nI hope the above answers your question.\n\n>>> Naveen Kumar
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Dear ,\n\nI)You must know that HIV virus doesnt spread through -\n\nSharing food, water, clothes, toilet , eating and drinking along with the HIV/ AIDS patient. \n\nII)Coming on to the second bit -Herpes , the only one comes to my understanding is "Oral Herpes" due to HSV-1 virus\n\nAND !\n HSV-1 does not survive long at all outside the human body. The virus is generally transmitted through direct contact with saliva, not through contact with inanimate objects touched by an infected person.\n\n\nSo , i think u r fine !!\n\nSo take care next on .and KNOW wen u need to be careful!\nCOZ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER ;O)\n\nHope that helped ya .\n:o)
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Absolutely not!  HIV dies upon contact with air in 30 seconds.  Now, hepatitis is a different story...it can live up to 2 weeks in dried blood!!!  Spooky.
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you dont know you have it intill like a year. you start to lose a lot of wieght. You couch a lot and breath heavy and when you talk you couch a lot. i only know this because i watched this video with a 16 year old boy who had aids. he had it for 5 years. when he was 13 he found out. he wasnt doing anything with any body but he got blood transferd to him for another person who had aids that did know he had aids and the 16 year old boy didnt know that blood had aids in it. thats how he got it. but if you think you have it you should go to a doctor because thats the best thing to do. we really dont know,only the doctors and you can trust them. GOOD LUCK! =)
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Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well outside the body, making the possibility of environmental transmission remote. HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts in blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, saliva, and tears. To obtain data on the survival of HIV, laboratory studies have required the use of artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus. Although these unnatural concentrations of HIV can be kept alive for days or even weeks under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have shown that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the amount of infectious virus by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, drying of HIV-infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission to that which has been observed - essentially zero. Incorrect interpretations of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have in some instances caused unnecessary alarm.
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You can be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and have no symptoms at all. On average, it takes about 7 to 9 years for symptoms to develop. Most symptoms of AIDS are not caused directly by the HIV virus, but by an infection or other condition acquired due to the weakened immune system. Symptoms can include severe weight loss, fevers, headaches, drenching night sweats, fatigue, severe diarrhea, shortness of breath, and difficulty swallowing. The symptoms tend to last for weeks or months at a time and do not go away without treatment. Since these symptoms are commonly seen in other diseases, you can't assume any symptom is HIV/AIDS-related until you get laboratory tests. See a doctor if you think you may be at risk or if you have symptoms. \nYou might not know if you get infected by HIV. Some people get fever, headache, sore muscles and joints, stomach ache, swollen lymph glands, or a skin rash for one or two weeks. Most people think it's the flu. Some people have no symptoms. \nThe virus will multiply in your body for a few weeks or even months before your immune system responds. During this time, you won't test positive for HIV, but you can infect other people. \nWhen your immune system responds, it starts to make antibodies. When you start making antibodies, you will test positive for HIV. \nAfter the first flu-like symptoms, some people with HIV stay healthy for ten years or longer. But during this time, HIV is damaging your immune system. \nOne way to measure the damage to your immune system is to see how many CD4+ cells you have. These cells, also called "T-helper" cells, are an important part of the immune system. Healthy people have between 500 and 1,500 CD4+cells in milliliter of blood. \nWithout treatment, your CD4+ cell count will most likely go down. You might start having signs of HIV disease like fevers, night sweats, diarrhea, or swollen lymph nodes. If you have HIV disease, these problems will last more than a few days, and probably continue for several weeks.
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AIDS is the final stage of the HIV virus. You contract HIV, not AIDS.\n\nAt first there may not be any symptoms at all. The virus can live in the body without showing any symptoms for up to 10 years untreated. Symptoms do not seriously begin to develop until the virus has moved into the AIDS stage, which is the final stage of HIV infection. Within this stage, symptoms include:\n\n Mild: fatigue, unexplained weight loss, mild fever, diarrhea, and sore throat.\n Severe: loss of appetite, skin diseases, night sweats, and deterioration of mucous membranes.\n\n The best bet is to get tested regularly if you engage in risky sexual activity, or use injection drugs. If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact your local department of public health. Free testing is available, as well as risk reduction, and post-infection counseling.
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No you can't. HIV dies when it's out of the body. Sex and exchange of bodily fluids are pretty much the only ways that you are going to aquire this.
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There is no cure at this time for HIV.  The person can lead a relatively normal life, with the proper treatment.  Who knows, there may be a cure someday as well.
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as a person that does HIV-Aids Education & awareness at group homes colledges ,university's ect and who also has HIV,i can tell you with certainty that the Virus dies upon contact with the air 1-3 seconds tops.So ,it will only be alive for like 1-3 seconds if that.if you have anymore q on hiv-aids you can email me at jamesgsud@hotmail.com and i would be happy to answer any and all questions,thanks and GODBless eh!peace all!~
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A person who is infected may not show active signs of the disease and therefore even without proper medical care could live for years, however it is best if anyone thinks they are infected or conduct themselves which could lead to infection should get tested.\n\nTechnically AIDS/HIV does not kill a person..it merely weakens and compromises the immune system allowing other diseases/germs to weaken the person and kill them (possibly) shen the disease is active. With proper care and medication people who are infected can live for years and lead a "normal" life.\n\nIt is transmitted through the transfer of bodily fluids. Such as unprotected sex, sharing needles, blood transfusions (done years ago), open wounds, etc. You cannot get it from a handshake, sharing the toilet seat, casual contact.
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the window period to get an accurate test result is 2 weeks to 6 months. This means that if you were tested (blood test by your doctor) 6 months after your last unprotected sexual encounter, chances are you are safe. These tests have a high sensitivity and specificity at 6 months. I think what others are confusing is the occurance of symptoms versus the ability of the virus to be detected by blood test. While you may not have symptoms of the virus for years or possibly decades, the presence of the virus is detectable within 6 months of infection. \nThe way the blood testing works, it that when we are infected with the HIV virus, our T cells and B cells (adaptive portion of the immune system) generate antibodies to the antigen (virus). These antibodies circulate in our blood stream and can be detected using ELISA and confirmed using Western Blotting techniques. When tested at 6 WEEKS post infection, there is 92% accuracy. So the 6 month mark is being overly cautious. \nIn terms of who you should/can sleep with safely, I would highly recommend using protection. If you have sex without sharing bodily fluid, then you decrease you chances of exposure/infection greatly. Besides, there is no guarantee that your partner has been tested. Or that they are disclosing the truth. Please be careful. One night of pleasure is not worth a lifetime stuggle with disease. Protect yourself.
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First of all, I am sorry about what is going on with your boyfriend. I am a Registered Nurse and the mental anguish of this diagnosis can be very difficult.\n\nMost Definelty! Tests can be wrong...\n\nHowever, there are two tests for HIV, (Western Blot and Elisa Test)--if both of those tests came out positive then he is probably positive. The Western Blot test is the most "accurate" test.--So there can be instances where a person is positive for the Elisa Test and Negative for the Western Blot test and vice versa.--The fact still remains that the Western Blot is the most definitive test.\n\nAnd to answer your other question..."Can he be healthy and still be HIV positive"--- Most Definetly, this is 2006, now a days, HIV is not a "death sentence". As you know, it can take up to ten years to become positive or let alone feel the symptoms of being HIV positive. You must remember that HIV is a virus that causes AIDS. AIDS and its effects such as (PCP pneumonia, Kaposi Sarcoma, Low T Cell Counts) are what kill people, not HIV. The HIV Virus can lie "dormant" (meaning asymptomatic, still contagious to others however) for lack of better terms until the person is diagnosed with AIDS. Even if it is confirmed that he is HIV positive, being physically fit will be on his side. His life span may be prolonged by that alone.\n\nAnyway, I hope this helps....I really hope all goes well with your beau. Do you plan on getting tested as well?