Warning - Airport Taxi's Lima. I am the manager of a backpackers hostel in Barranco, Lima. Once again I would like to stongly suggest everyone arriving in Lima to prebook your airport transfer with your accommodation! The 'official' airport taxi business is close to mafia.
For the majority of patients who have HIV, the dormancy period lasts about 10 years. About 10 percent to 20 percent of patients progress to having AIDS within 5 years. It is estimated that another 5 percent to 10 percent of patients will not reach the AIDS phase for more than 15 years.
Brady, Emergency Care, 9th edition. (my bold added). HIV can't survive more than 10 minutes outside the body, even in blood spatters of significant volume it doesn't do well once the temperature starts to lower, and the virus is outside the host body. from her husband (who had acquired HIV and Hep. C from his medication). We also try to keep track of those who are dually diagnosed with HIV and Hep C, and thirty percent of those we know about report being men who have sex with men but NOT injection drug users. I suspect that many of them acquired it sexually.