What type of risk might an HIV positive employee pose to his/her colleagues and clients?
None. For there is no risk of infection as a result of routine workplace activities. The HI virus can be transmitted neither during normal daily human contact such as shaking hands, hugging, kissing, sneezing, coughing, nor from the shared usage of telephones, computers, crockery, cutlery, towels or toilets. Even in the medical sphere, where one might by chance come into contact with other people’s blood, any infection risk can be rendered practically impossible by adherence to appropriate hygienic measures.