You can’t contract HIV from:

• Donating Blood
• Casual contact such as touching, holding hands, hugging
• A cough, sneeze, tears, or sweat
• An animal or insect bite
• A toilet seat
• From the hot tub or swimming pool

You can, however, get it these ways:

• Unprotected sex of any kind
• Sharing drug needles
• May pass to a child during pregnancy or delivery
• Blood transfusions, especially if it was before 1985

Symptoms of Infection are: fatigue, loss of appetite,chronic diarrhea,weight loss,a persistent dry cough,fever,night sweats, and swollen lymph nodes