Reality: HIV cannot be transmitted through…
Toilet seats or door-knob handles; Touching, hugging, holding hands, or cheek kissing with an HIV-infected person; Sharing eating utensils with an HIV-infected person; Mosquito bites; Drinking from a water fountain; Using gym equipment used by infected person.
Myth: HIV can be contracted from mosquitoes, because HIV is spread through blood people.
Reality: HIC cannot be contracted from mosquito bites.
Several studies, show no evidence to support this — even in areas with lots of mosquitoes and cases of HIV. When insects bite, they do not inject the blood of the person or animal they have last bitten. Also, HIV lives for only a short time inside an insect.
Reality: HIV is transmitted through…
infected body fluids such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, or mother’s milk. HIV can also be transmitted through needles contaminated with HIV-infected blood, including needles used for injecting drugs, tattooing or body piercing.
