HIV question, will you help?

Question

i have homework on aids, and what businesses and/or industries carry possilbe risks of transmission?

Answer 1

Risks of transmission are higher in professions that may or may not be legal. Such industries include the medical industry, prostitution, and drug trafficking. Below are some less thought of industries as well.

Here is information from the CDC Fact Sheet on HIV:
Businesses and Other Settings

There is no known risk of HIV transmission to co-workers, clients, or consumers from contact in industries such as food-service establishments (see information on survival of HIV in the environment). Food-service workers known to be infected with HIV need not be restricted from work unless they have other infections or illnesses (such as diarrhea or hepatitis A) for which any food-service worker, regardless of HIV infection status, should be restricted. CDC recommends that all food-service workers follow recommended standards and practices of good personal hygiene and food sanitation.

In 1985, CDC issued routine precautions that all personal-service workers (such as hairdressers, barbers, cosmetologists, and massage therapists) should follow, even though there is no evidence of transmission from a personal-service worker to a client or vice versa. Instruments that are intended to penetrate the skin (such as tattooing and acupuncture needles, ear piercing devices) should be used once and disposed of or thoroughly cleaned and sterilized. Instruments not intended to penetrate the skin but which may become contaminated with blood (for example, razors) should be used for only one client and disposed of or thoroughly cleaned and disinfected after each use. Personal-service workers can use the same cleaning procedures that are recommended for health care institutions.

CDC knows of no instances of HIV transmission through tattooing or body piercing, although hepatitis B virus has been transmitted during some of these practices. One case of HIV transmission from acupuncture has been documented. Body piercing (other than ear piercing) is relatively new in the United States, and the medical complications for body piercing appear to be greater than for tattoos. Healing of piercings generally will take weeks, and sometimes even months, and the pierced tissue could conceivably be abraded (torn or cut) or inflamed even after healing. Therefore, a theoretical HIV transmission risk does exist if the unhealed or abraded tissues come into contact with an infected person’s blood or other infectious body fluid. Additionally, HIV could be transmitted if instruments contaminated with blood are not sterilized or disinfected between clients.

Answer 2

Any rescue or health care type occupation would carry a risk of transmission for HIV and other diseases. People that are doctors, nurses, EMT's, police, firefighters, and caregivers in nursing homes or group homes could be at risk, for instance, if someone they took care of or rescued was HIV positive and there were exposed bodily fluids (like blood) and exposed breaks in the skin of the caregiver.

Although not a legal occupation (except for one county in Nevada), prostitution also carries a high risk for the transmission of HIV and other diseases. The reasons why are quite obvious but, beyond the sexual aspect, prostitutes may also be using or dealing with people that use intravenous drugs, which increases the risk of transmission.

Answer 3

Nobody has yet discovered the origin of HIV. The leading hypothesis (the last time I checked) was that SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) somehow mutated and crossed from primates (probably chimpanzees) into humans (becoming HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus). This is just a hypothesis, but it seems to be the most supported one. The two types of HIV appear to have originated in two places in Africa from two different species of primates. If this is true, it would have spread early on through people butchering monkeys in the jungles of Africa, and likely through sexual contact with their spouses. The only reason people in the USA think it's a "gay disease" is that it is believed the virus first came to the USA via Europe through a gay man, which introduced it into the gay community, and this is what made the news. Had it spread through the breeder community, I'm sure it would be stagmatized quite differently. However, in the USA, as in the rest of the world, it is now an equal-opportunity pathogen, and isn't restricted to, or largely more prevalent in any particular group of people.

Answer 4

medical industries - doctors, nurses, physician assistants, surgical technicians, lab technicians, blood bank workers, housekeepers in medical facilities (from spilled blood), workers in companies that clean linens and scrubs from medical facilities (again from spilled blood or contaminated medical equipment thrown in with the linens/scrubs accidentally), workers in companies that discard medical waste, medical assistants, emt's/paramedics, police, military, home health aides that care for infected patients

sex industries - pornography, prostititution

research industries - researching hiv / aids and treatments- workers that handle specimens with the virus (biochemists, microbiologists, lab technician) , and again, the people that clean the facilities and equipment

drug addicts - not sure if this counts as "employment" :)

Answer 5

hiv and aids, are hard to transfer actually, the businesses inwhich can spread the disease mostly are the prostitution, and the healthcare

Answer 6

Any health related field....sports like boxing....adult entertainment industry....probably the highest.

Answer 7

Surgeons, doctors and dentists. If they have cuts on their fingers, they could pass it on to their patients while their working on them or patients could pass it on to them. Police, firefighters and paramedics also often have to deal with bleeding people.

http://www.angelic1healing.com

Answer 8

medical industry, law enforcement

Answer 9

Medical, food.

Answer 10

medical, dental, gay bath houses, prostitutes, emts, police, blood labs,