For the past 30 years HIV and AIDS has been a major health issue

Some of the common myths I've heard throughout the years would be that you can catch HIV by kissing someone, or even simply touching or breathing near them. I also often heard that sharing food or drinks with someone infected could pass on the disease. Any time false information reaches mass amounts of people, it causes a bigger problem. Having HIV would be difficult for the person by itself, but having false ideas out there only makes it more painful. Often times they get treated like the walking virus, with people avoiding them in fear of catching it themselves. The most outrageous myth would be the thought that you can catch HIV by touching someone who's positive. By that concept, someone would have to think that a person with HIV is literally excreting the disease though their pores. The most believable would have to be that mosquitoes can transfer HIV to others by sucking the blood from someone who's positive and then someone who's negative. No old blood is injected to the next person, and HIV only lasts inside them for a short period of time.