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afraid to get infected
i just wanted some tips because i can hardly walk on the street. because everytime i feel something on my shoe i think it could be a syringe and have to check the ground. thats very annoying. because i'm afraid to get infected with hiv this way. i have this since 3 month. i mean everytime we step on something and feel a little ***** it could THEORETICALLY be a syringe that pocked me even though the probabylity is small but its not unrealistic..
If you understood how HIV is contracted, you would know why your fear IS unrealistic.
Of course it's POSSIBLE to step on a syringe, and it might even penetrate your shoe and "get into your foot," but it will NOT infect you.
Getting yourself educated about HIV will teach you why you can't contract the virus that way.
In the meantime, while you're learning about HIV, you could organize a "Save Our Park" group. Same concept as a Neighborhood Watch program. Contact the local police and make sure they are aware of what is going on in this particular park. They could perhaps beef up their patrols. Someone from the police dept. can come talk with your group on how to go about cleaning it up. Perhaps around the playground area you can get the city to put up signs for the kids with a picture of a syringe and a big red line through it. You could print up a bunch of flyers and hand them out to everyone in the park, tell the kids to give them to their parents. You could hand them out to all the homes within walking distance of the park.
Put your HIV anxiety to work in a positive, REALISTIC way, As the saying goes...........if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Peace
Greenlydia
Of course it's POSSIBLE to step on a syringe, and it might even penetrate your shoe and "get into your foot," but it will NOT infect you.
Getting yourself educated about HIV will teach you why you can't contract the virus that way.
In the meantime, while you're learning about HIV, you could organize a "Save Our Park" group. Same concept as a Neighborhood Watch program. Contact the local police and make sure they are aware of what is going on in this particular park. They could perhaps beef up their patrols. Someone from the police dept. can come talk with your group on how to go about cleaning it up. Perhaps around the playground area you can get the city to put up signs for the kids with a picture of a syringe and a big red line through it. You could print up a bunch of flyers and hand them out to everyone in the park, tell the kids to give them to their parents. You could hand them out to all the homes within walking distance of the park.
Put your HIV anxiety to work in a positive, REALISTIC way, As the saying goes...........if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Peace
Greenlydia
no its not unrealistic. its possible to step on a syringe and get it into the foot and get infected. it already happened a couple of times that i walked by a syringe and almost stepped on it in a park nearby where a lot of those are lying because drug users are there. SO ITS A REALISTIC CONCERN. i wonder why other people are not worried about that. it started three month ago that i became afraid when i heard of a little kid who poked himself on a playground
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