What If a Friend or Associate Has HIV Infection or AIDS?
Ans. A friend or acquaintance will need your support and understanding, just as with any other life-threatening illness. Assurance of your continued friendship is very important. Most importantly, your friend will want to be treated as usual-as a valuable human being. And remember, casual contact-a hug, a handshake, a kiss on the cheek-poses no threat of infection to you. Q. Why do people who are infected with HIV eventually die? Ans. When people are infected with HIV, they do not die of HIV or AIDS. These people die due to the effects that the HIV has on the body. With the immune system down, the body becomes susceptible to many infections, from the common cold to cancer. It is actually those particular infections, and the body’s inability to fight the infections that cause these people to become so sick, that they eventually die.
Ans. A friend or acquaintance will need your support and understanding, just as with any other life-threatening illness. Assurance of your continued friendship is very important. Most importantly, your friend will want to be treated as usual-as a valuable human being. And remember, casual contact-a hug, a handshake, a kiss on the cheek-poses no threat of infection to you.
A friend or acquaintance will need your support and understanding, just as with any other life-threatening illness. Assurance of your continued friendship is very important. Most importantly, your friend will want to be treated as usual-as a valuable human being. And remember, casual contact-a hug, a handshake, a kiss on the cheek-poses no threat of infection to you.
