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

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

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  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?
  

  The more you post, the more you prove you are NOT educated on transmission.
  

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

   

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  • jillbailey26
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:19 PM

• I didn't say YOU were uneducated.  I said it's ridiculous the lack of education on the subject, which IS ridiculous.  You're right, they're your children, but like I've said, they could have already been in contact with someone and you don't even know it. 

  Your kids might be a bigger threat to another child if they were HIV positive.  They could give that child a simple cold that could kill them. 
  

  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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  • Mom2PunkRockers
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:20 PM

• HIV and AIDS cannot be transmitted through sharing cups, plates , silverware, food or drink. It cannot be transmitted by sharing toilets, showers , clothing , or shoes. It is ONLY transmitted through blood to blood contact, or through vaginal fluids and semen contact.
  

  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...

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

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  • nickiturner04
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:20 PM

•  personally, i think this is a ridiculous post and its just calling for drama. unless you ask every kid and their mom, you're not going to know if they have aids/hiv. a child is a child... not some "thing" you completely pass off as infectious.

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  • impunkysmommy
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:21 PM

• You know its not the child's fault that they have aids. You cant catch it by playing dolls or something like that. And chances are if a child has aids, their parents wouldnt let them play if they had an open wound or scrape. I teach my daughter not to touch someone else's blood whether they have aids or not. Do some research and stop depriving your children of what could be a good friend. 

  

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  • jdavis2
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:21 PM

• My daughter will be starting kindergarten in August, and there will be a little boy in her class who is HIV positive, and I don't know how to handle it, the fear may be irrational, and far fetched, it doesn't make me uneducated, it just makes me a mother who wants to protect her daughter.
  

  Quoting LiquidAmethyst:
  
  

  i agree with you OP.  say whatever you want IDGAF

  why are you asking though?

  
  

  

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  • luvmyparties
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:22 PM

• OP have you ever heard of Ryan White? You should look that up and see how he was treated. Would you really want to treat another child like that?

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  • blsdbyangel07
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:23 PM

• Popcorn anyone?

  

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  • LA8YBUG
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:23 PM

• Who pissed in your Cheerios this morning, sheesh, I was talking  in general terms, Protecting my child from ANYTHING!  Thats why I also put open wounds, etc.......

  Quoting elleinad:
  
  

   

  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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  • travswifey
  on Jul. 4, 2009 at 8:24 PM

• How do you know the kid has aids?
  

  

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