Step-by-step explanation:
(a) After vis friends comforted him he went back to school.
(b) No. HIV can only be caught by another person of they come in contact with your blood or through sexual intercourse. So it is not possible for others to become infected if they didn't come in contact with the person's blood or have unprotected intercourse. There is no reason for a HIV+ve person to isolate themself from the outside world. They are people just as we are but they only have something that can cause them to be really sick.