People with AIDS do not need to be isolated because AIDS is a blood-borne disease that is not airborne and therefore does not require isolation. Although there is no effective vaccine for AIDS, there are ways to prevent infection. In addition, there are ways to prevent HIV infection. Even shaking hands, hugging and kissing with an AIDS patient will not infect you. To prevent HIV, it is important to be clean, to have regular sexual partners, and to avoid importing blood and blood products. Do not borrow or share personal items such as toothbrushes, razors, or shavers unless it is necessary.