Broken Condom Negative At 3 Months

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Broken condom a month ago

Dear Dr.Bob,The irony of all this is that I ALWAYS USE CONDOMS and this time it broke! I was the "top" but my"trick" says hes neg. I have been a wreck and now so wiped out with fatigue, weakness, night sweats, sore throat, achy...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Miami,Oh, another QTND (question that never dies)! OraSure HIV tests (as well as ELISA tests, EIA, rapid tests and all other antibody tests) do not measure actual live HIV virus, but rather anti-HIV antibodies. These are specific proteins... Read more »

Broken Leg and a Broken Condom

Dr. Frascino,I just wanted to thank you for all your advise and professionalism in this forum.... Read more »

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Broken Condom

My girlfriend was recently diagnosed with hiv. She has had it for awhile because it has developed... Read more »

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Question: I've been with my boyfriend for 6 months. He's negative and I'm positive. At first he was really good about using condoms but now he says he doesn't care and that he loves me. I don't want to make him do something he doesn't want to, but... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Rates of Condom and Non-Condom-Based Anal Intercourse Practices Among Homosexually Active Men in Australia: Deliberate HIV Risk Reduction?

"Three decades into the HIV epidemic and with the advancement of HIV treatments, condom and non-condom-based anal intercourse among gay men in resource-rich countries needs to be re-assessed," the authors wrote to introduce the current study. The... Read more »

Malaysian Health Minister Considering Program to Provide Free Needles, Condoms to Injection Drug Users to Reduce HIV Spread

Malaysian Health Minister Chua Soi Lek on Thursday said he is considering initiating a six-month pilot program that would distribute hypodermic needles and condoms to 1,200 injection drug users at no cost at 10 government clinics and 10 private... Read more »

AIDS Activism, Boehringer Ingelheim and the Broken Social Contract

Sheraton Golf Parco de'Medici, 6 April 2006, Rome [Note: This is a revised and expanded version of remarks I gave yesterday at the Boehringer Ingelheim symposium on HIV past and future. The two-day symposium is taking place at a business-style... Read more »

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broken condom - 30 seconds - broken lives

Posted by Anonymous, 6 Replies

People,

A broken condom followed by 30 seconds of exposure in vaginal sex(insertive) & this is what I have. I think following list speaks for itself as to what I have:
1. PN [burning palms & soles from 10 day onwards]
2. joint aches
3. stomach... Read more »

Broken condom

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

A few months ago I broke up with a long term girlfriend. Since I was single again, I decided to get a complete std check since we use to have uprotected sex occasionally. 4 days before my scheduled test I ended up having protected sex with a... Read more »

Broken Condom New HIV strain or What? WORRIED

Posted by ademalu, 1 Reply

Well here is my situation
had exposure in mid may 2009 with Commercial Sex Worker (CSW) condom broke ,had rapid test in June and August 2009 all came out negative. had Elisa (elecsys) test for HIV 1 and 2 endsept 2009 came out negative. Had QL DNA... Read more »

Broken Condom

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

I hade sex with someone I really didn't know that well over the weekend. During it, I realized my condom broke, and I stopped without ejaculating. So I have two big concerns. One, assuming the unlikely worst that the girl was HIV positive, what... Read more »

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