Would you let your child(ren) play with a child with aids?

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  • dre_bunny
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:16 PM

•  I used to play with a kid who had AIDS and I'm fine...

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  • LiquidAmethyst
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:16 PM

• i agree with you OP.  say whatever you want IDGAF

  why are you asking though?

  

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  • elleinad
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:16 PM

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  Quoting jdavis2:
  
  

  What an idiotic question, Aids is transferable by blood contact, you do realize children get cuts and scraps, play blood brother's and sister's that sort of thing right?

  And if an HIV infected child gets a cut, how do you think your child would possibly get HIV? Really, the only way is if they're playing "blood brothers" every day for several months. If your child is doing that, you have much bigger problems on your hands than your child's choice of play mate. Please educate yourself as to how HIV is spread. Discriminating against some poor kid at a playground who might want to play on the monkey bars with your child because of YOUR ignorance isn't right.
  

  "...Only the doing of justice is a good enough excuse to be born."

   

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  • Mom2PunkRockers
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:16 PM

• My daughter has a cronic bowel disease. She spends lots of time in hospitals. She plays with children that have HIV and AIDS all the time during her hospital trips, and she continues to be friends with some of them outside of the hopsital. I have had these kids in my home , they have eaten here, drank here, used our toilets and showers, and shocker , even slept in my house for sleepovers. Our families go places together as well. None of us has AIDS or HIV in my family and we are not conserend with us or our kids getting it.

  Kids with this disease are KIDS they are HUMANS and they deserve the same respect and love as any other human on this planet. To not do so is outright prejudiced and disgusting. How would you like it if the shoe was on the other foot and it was YOUR kid that was sick with HIV or AIDS, and parents wouldnt let their kids near your because of irrational prejudiced fears? You wouldnt like it one damn bit , and you would be here on CM bitching about the injustices your child suffers because of peoples fear.
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

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  • jdavis2
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:17 PM

• Everyone wants to say I am uneducated, I am not, I know about how aids is transmitted. I just would never want to put my children into a situation where there is even a possibility. They are my children, if I don't protect them who will?
  

  Quoting jillbailey26:
  
  

  Being that you need sexual contact, IV needles or direct open wound pressed up against open wound to transmit the disease, YES I would definitely let my children play with a child with HIV/AIDS.  It is ridiculous the lack of education on this subject.  Like playing barbies, or basketball together would transmit it.  You're more likely to get a cold before you are infected with HIV.

  
  

  

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  • shecallsmemom04
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:17 PM

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  • necro1134
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:17 PM

• do children now days even play "blood brother/sister" anymore? plus a child with aids/hiv would be taking meds and would know not to let blood get anywhere near anyone else, even at a young age. i know a 5 year old with aids that knows not to.
  

  Quoting jdavis2:
  
  

  I am not ignorant on how aids is spread. I don't have a misconception about salivia being a way to transfer it, I just remember when I was young and became blood sister's with my best friends, I would not won't my children to face a life with aids because they acted on a whim as a child.
  

  Quoting retsillacam:
  
  

  not cruel and heartless, but you are obviously ignorant on how HIV/AIDS is spread. Educate yourself.  And to answer your question. of coarse I would.

  
  

  
  

   

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  • elleinad
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:17 PM

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  Quoting LA8YBUG:
  
  

  Yes I would.  If i even knew.  My children are old enough where I can tell them not to share a cup, open wounds, etc...

  YOU CANNOT GET HIV FROM SHARING FOOD. For fuck's sake, there is quite the braintrust on here today.

  
  

  Non-Sexual Routes of Transmission

  Currently, the main non-sexual ways that HIV is transmitted are:

  • sharing needles with injection drug users
  • mother to child

  Sharing injection needles: This is an extremely high risk behavior as an injection needle can pass blood directly from one person's bloodstream to another. It is a very efficient way to transmit a blood-borne virus. Please see the section on Injection Drug Risk Reduction for more detailed information on injected drug use and ways to reduce the risk of becoming infected with HIV.

  Needle sticks: A study of over 2,000 health care workers has been underway for several years to assess the risk of their exposure to people with AIDS. Over 1,000 of these workers had a needle stick accident with a needle that had been used on a person living with HIV. The rest had some sort of mucous membrane exposure, such as being splashed in the face with blood or vomit.

  Of all these people, only 21 show signs of being infected with HIV (as determined by the antibody test). One of these people was a nurse who had multiple needle stick accidents, including one where she tripped and fell on the depressor of a syringe full of blood, and the entire contents entered her body. Another was a lab worker who was working with a test tube of infected blood which broke and cut his finger, exposing the infected blood to his bloodstream. This study shows that HIV is quite difficult to get.

  Blood transfusions: Blood donations in the United States have been screened for antibody to HIV type-1 since March 1985 and HIV type-2 since June 1992. This practice has almost eliminated the risk of getting HIV through a blood transfusion. Assuring the safety of the blood supply is a high-tech process requiring at least nine specific tests; proper processing, labeling, and storage; and vigilant quality control. Routine donations are now tested for HIV and hepatitis C through nucleic acid testing (NAT).

  Hemophilia treatments: Hemophilia is a genetic disease in which people (almost all men) lack the ability to clot blood. To control the condition, hemophiliacs take Factor VIII, a clotting factor. Each dose of Factor VIII comes from the pooled blood of many donors. Currently, over 90% of hemophiliacs in the U.S. have been infected with HIV because of receiving contaminated Factor VIII in the early years of the epidemic. Factor VIII is now heat-treated to kill the virus. In addition, there are new synthetic products that do not pose any risk for HIV and which accomplish the same function.

  Other blood products: Besides whole blood, platelets (red blood cells) have transmitted the virus. Current blood screening, however, should prevent all but a very, very few cases. No other blood products are suspected of transmitting HIV. Gamma globulin or hepatitis B vaccines do not transmit HIV. Gamma globulin, however, can temporarily transmit HIV antibodies, although not the virus itself. These antibodies will disappear within a few months.

  Donor insemination: Donor semen is checked for HIV antibodies when the semen is collected. The semen is then frozen. The donor is required to come back after six months for a second HIV test, to confirm the initial HIV screening. The semen is not used before the procedure is completed.

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  • jenn31
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:19 PM

• Then put your kids in a big bubble. lol
  

  Quoting jdavis2:
  
  

  Everyone wants to say I am uneducated, I am not, I know about how aids is transmitted. I just would never want to put my children into a situation where there is even a possibility. They are my children, if I don't protect them who will?
  

  Quoting jillbailey26:
  
  

  Being that you need sexual contact, IV needles or direct open wound pressed up against open wound to transmit the disease, YES I would definitely let my children play with a child with HIV/AIDS.  It is ridiculous the lack of education on this subject.  Like playing barbies, or basketball together would transmit it.  You're more likely to get a cold before you are infected with HIV.

  
  

  
  

  

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  • travswifey
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:19 PM

• So what was your point of this post?
  

  

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