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Assess Your Risk For HIV
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Just made donation- please help assess HIV riskOn June 30 of last year I had protected sex with a CSW. She put the condom on me with her mouth and it stayed on the whole time during intercourse. I have two possible risk factors and subsequent possible symptoms.1. I had a sliver in my index...
Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
Hello,HIV is not your problem. So I'll be brief.1. Even with the recently removed sliver your HIV-acquisition risk is negligible. (This assumes the latex condom was used properly and didn't fail.)2. Water from the washcloth dripping onto...
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Viral Load and Risk AssessmentIn the 1 1/2 years I have known I am hiv-positive I have been fairly sexually active, including... Read more »Risk AssessmentDr. Bob,I'm HIV poz and my partner is neg. We've been very careful until tonight. We... Read more »
Articles
Self-Assessment May Lower HIV Patients' Risk-TakingA key component of HIV/AIDS care is encouraging patients to curb high-risk behaviors like unprotected sex and drug use. Often, this means time-intensive and costly counseling. But a new study suggests that self-assessments could provide the push... Read more »
Cardiovascular Risk Assessment, Treatment Vital for HIV Patients on TherapyDallas -- Antiretroviral medications have dramatically reduced the overall death rate among patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but those same patients may now face an increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to... Read more »
Rapid Assessment of Drug-Related HIV Risk Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in Three South African CitiesThe researchers designed the current study to assess the association between drug use and risky sexual behavior among men who have sex with men (MSM) in locations known to have high prevalence rates of drug use and sexual risk behavior in three... Read more »
STD/HIV Prevention Practices Among Primary Care Clinicians: Risk Assessment, Prevention Counseling, and TestingThe authors' objective in the current study was to describe current practices of primary care (PC) clinicians for STD/HIV control services, including risk assessment, prevention counseling, and testing. Qualitative interviews were conducted to... Read more »
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Risk Factor and Assessment
Posted by Anonymous
I have a question for anyone who is knowledgeable in HIV infection risk factors. About 15 weeks ago I had unprotected sex with a female stripper for about 40 seconds to a minute. I stopped her after that. I did not ejaculate. In the following six... Read more » Risk assessment, or, how screwed am I?
Posted by ratherconcerned, 1 Reply
Hi, I'm a male who has sex with men, and I have an HIV-related concern. My last negative HIV test was on 4/7/08, which was 45 days after an unprotected encounter with another guy who I know fairly well and who claims to be HIV-. (I was both the...
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risk assessement please, i am scared
Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies
2 weeks post possible exposure: (no other exposures in the past)1-diarrhea (resolved in one day with over the counter meds)2- severe abdmoinal pain 3- neck tighness +sore throat 4- loss of appetite.5-chills twice, mild night sweats twice6-loss of... Read more » Risk assessement please, am so so scared
Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies
2 weeks post possible exposure: (no other exposures in the past)1-diarrhea (resolved in one day with over the counter meds)2- severe abdmoinal pain 3- neck tighness +sore throat 4- loss of appetite.5-chills twice, mild night sweats twice6-loss of... Read more »
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