Being Intimate With Someone With Hiv

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration, Standard and Gendered STI/HIV Risk Behavior, and STI/HIV Diagnosis Among a Clinic-Based Sample of Men

"The estimated one in three women worldwide victimized by intimate partner violence (IPV) consistently demonstrate elevated [sexually transmitted infection]/HIV prevalence, with their abusive male partners' risky sexual behaviors and subsequent... Read more »

UNAIDS Report Says 50 Million Women in Asia at Risk of HIV Infection From Intimate Partners

A UNAIDS report released Tuesday at the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) in Bali, Indonesia, estimates that more than 90 percent of the 1.7 million HIV-positive women living in Asia were infected by husbands or... Read more »

What's the Link Between Intimate Partner Violence and HIV?

Kat Griffith As a member of the Positive Women's Network steering committee, I am extremely honored to be asked to sit on a national committee that created a curriculum for teaching providers about the intersection between Intimate Partner... Read more »

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how do i be intimate with new partner

i have recently found out the my ex fiancee has aids i have taken the test and am awaiting my results, im just confused as to how i can be intimate with my new partner without infecting him if i was to have it???? are we allowed to kiss, basically...

Response from John L. Sullivan, M.D.

University of Massachusetts, Medical School

It is important that if you are having sex[ vaginal/oral-genital] with your new partner that you use safe sex practices[ condoms] ; it is highly unlikely that kissing is associated with HIV transmission; JLS.... Read more »

Intimate Contact

I have been diagnosed as have surface anogens B&C Hepatitus.as being a carrier Iguess I have been having regular blood panels as suggested by the doctors.My Girlfriend&I have just decidedto get married but to date we have not had sex. she...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

Good questions....1. Hepatitis B can be transmitted easily through sex so it is extremely important for your fiance to get tested for hepatitis B serologies. It is quite possible that she has received hepatitis B vaccines through routine... Read more »

hiv+ leaves neg partner for status

Hi,I met a guy last summer and we fell incredibily in love with each other. He was very honest and told before the first intimate encounter about his hiv+ status. I'm a guy too and negative. Over the summer romance he had to move away and...

Response from Robert H. Remien, Ph.D.

Columbia University

As your story portrays, people choose to end relationships for a whole host of reasons. And there are often numerous challenges to having a relationship, such as distance, work or study stress, etc. HIV status differences can create special... Read more »

HIV and intimacy

Dear Mr. Sowadsky, I have recently met a woman that is HIV positive. We wouldlike to start an intimate relationship, but are uncertain of our boundaries. My primary question to youis, is "dry-humping" with clothes on considered risk free?...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Hi. Thank you for your question."Dry Humping", that is, having sex with your clothes on, is considered a lowrisk activity as far as HIV is concerned. This is because it would be verydifficult for the HIV virus to enter your body when you... Read more »

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My HIV+ boyfriend is afraid to be intimate...

Posted by Madeleine, 2 Replies

I am with a man whom I love very very much. He is perfect. My ex-husband was abusive and controlling but my current boyfriend was always there for me as a friend and now we are finally able to be together. Because of all the "trauma" caused by my... Read more »

I need mental help

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Alright here is my story and maybe someone is kind enough to help out. About three months ago i was intimate with a female (mind you im still a virgin) and it lead down to me fingering her. After the fact i was so scared and was checking my fingers... Read more »

My story...

Posted by Anonymous, 6 Replies

My boyfriend has recently (within the last week) tested HIV+. We have not been intimate in the course of our relationship, so I doubt I have contracted it from him, but I'm going to be tested as soon as possible.

I love this man, and we'd been... Read more »

Looking for Answers/ Reassurance

Posted by PolarBear, 1 Reply

HIV test results? Will vote best answer?
I have only been intimate with one person in my life and we have only had oral sex so far (both ways). I met him in August of 2008 and broke up in Jan of 2009. We got back together in Feb of this year but our... Read more »

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