It can’t be repeated too often that the risk of HIV transmission from household, social, school or work contact is infinitesimally small. If you’re a health worker or at any other occupational risk, your employers should train you in any special measures necessary to prevent infection.
You don’t catch HIV through touching, hugging, kissing, sharing clothing or eating utensils, sneezing, coughing, insect bites or by using public drinking fountains, toilets or swimming pools. It is especially important to understand this if you are living or working with someone who may be infected, or assisting with the care of someone with AIDS.
So, readers, though this information is only a drop in the ocean, I hope it’s useful to you. Unless the nature of the epidemic changes in Australia, I predict that women’s involvement with AIDS during the next decade will be mainly helping with the support and care of people who are already infected by HIV, or as agents in the prevention of spread (by their behaviour and through the education of their children and others). Knowledge and understanding provide the surest means of preventing further spread of this terrible epidemic.
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