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Cooking and food safety for people living with HIV

A healthy diet is important to the overall health of people with HIV. Learn more about healthy eating for people with HIV.

If you are caring for someone with advanced HIV disease or AIDS, it is best to take certain safety steps:

  • Wash your hands before you touch food. Wash often while you prepare different foods. For instance, after you cut raw meat, wash your hands. Then, prepare the vegetables
  • Wash cooking utensils (knives, spoons, spatulas) before you use them. Wash again before you use the same utensil on a different kind of food
  • Wash and peel fresh fruits and vegetables. They can carry germs on their skins
  • Use only pasteurized milk and cheeses—be sure all labels on milk and cheese say "pasteurized." Almost all milk sold in US stores is pasteurized
  • Avoid foods made with raw eggs. These foods include homemade mayonnaise, salad dressings, hollandaise sauce, and ice cream. If something is homemade, check with the person who made it to be sure no raw eggs were used
  • Cook meats so there is no pink showing in the middle
  • Avoid uncooked fish (sushi)

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