I am so happy that I finally got to talk to my brother-in-law about HIV/AIDS yesterday because he is in town and that too, by himself. I went out for lunch with him and gave him a lot of information about HIV. I told him about the different scenarios that we have been writing on in class. It turned out to be really good and I feel like it made a little bit of a difference in his thinking, atleast enough for him to think more about it.
As I am thinking more about the whole biting situation in kindergarten, it feels to me like there is almost no possibility of transmitting HIV to another child. But then again, there is a 'what if'. I would feel horrible for both the children. My child would probably be abandoned from school and ignored for the rest of the life.
I come from a pretty conservative family that lives in India, so when I told my parents that I was going to go tested for HIV, they almost passed out. My mother started asking me crazy questions and asked me about the results all the time. She was so relieved to hear that it was negative.
Did You Know.........
There is a program called 'The AntiRetroviral Pregnancy Registry' that observes the effects of different antiretrovial treatments on pregnant HIV positive women and uses that information for further research.
They do not take personal information like the patients' names or contact information for the purpose of confidentiality.
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There is no what if in this situation, Isha. Unless the skin is broken, HIV can't be transmitted. Also saliva doesn't contain enough HIV viral particles to transmit.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet your parents were freaked out. You will probably need to reassure them more than once that the test was negative, because it may still be in the back of their minds... what if. You have some educating to do.