How can we avoid getting HIV infection through circumcision, tattooing, ear-piercing and other traditional practices?
• Make sure that all instruments used for circumcision, tattooing, ear-piercing, scarring and other similar traditional practices are sterilized or boiled. • Avoid such practices, if possible, or let a health worker do them. 3.2 What should we do if we have to attend to sick people at home or in the hospital? • Do not touch their blood, open sores or wounds, bloody stools or bloody vomit with your bare hands. • Wear rubber or plastic gloves and wash your hands often. • Handle soiled or bloody clothes, beddings and towels with care. • Wash soiled or bloody clothes, beddings and towels in hot soapy water, or water to which some chlorine bleach or any other germ killer has been added. 4. If someone has AIDS, what are the signs? The signs of AIDS are different from person to person. They include major and minor ones. 4.1 What are the major signs? The major signs are: • the person gets thinner and thinner; • he or she has frequent, watery stools, on and off or all the time, for more than on
