Can you get HIV or AIDS through skin contact?

No, no and no. This is just pure ignorance. Just because he was old or dirty doesn't mean he has a disease, maybe he's just had bad luck in life. With the current financial crisis that could have easily been you. People with HIV look normal.. You are so ignorant you don't even know that it's a virus not a bacteria? HIV is not contracted through simple skin contact you can only catch it through blood, semen, l fluid, infected mother birthing a child or infected mother feeding. So as long as you didn't get a transfusion or sleep with him you aren't infected. And if he had any other disease you wouldn't get it by him just touching you. Shame on you for being so close minded and judgmental.