Can Hiv Remain Infectious In The Mouth

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Researchers Discover "Reservoir" That Allows HIV to Remain Infectious Despite Treatment

Researchers at Brigham Young University and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have discovered a human cell "reservoir," called follicular dendritic cells, that allows HIV to stay in an infectious state and not respond to antiretroviral drugs,... Read more »

HIV Testing Policy: A Joint Position Paper of the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American College of Physicians

Summary Federal policies regarding the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of AIDS have not kept pace with changes that have transformed the disease from a fatal illness to a chronic disease for patients with ongoing access to HIV care and... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

America's Door Remains Shut to Foreigners With HIV; Critics Say Politics, "Remnant of Fear" Keep 19-Year-Old Ban Alive

The US Immigration and Naturalization Act denies visas to anyone with "a communicable disease of public health significance," and in 1987, Congress added HIV infection to that list of diseases. The prohibition remains in place today. While officials... Read more »

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HPV remain infectious? Can you get it in the absence of lesions?

My wife and I participate in an open, active, sexual lifestyle...primarily, "safe-sex" with other couples. We are concerned about the prevelence of HPV and its ease of transmission even with proper condom usage (hands, toys, etc.) Given...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

Human papillomavirus (HPV, also known as the wart virus) loves to infect the skins cells (squamous cell) around the genital area. It is transmitted by skin contact from an infected person to an uninfected person. This is in contrast to the HIV... Read more »

HIV most infectious early on???

Well Doctor Bob, I wrote this message before and think i put it in the wrong catagory so i think this is the right one!OK, ill start my question with explaining an article that i read from a website: worldbank.org, i was particularly focusing on the...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hey,OK, enough with the "Dr. Bob superhero saving the world one anxious wreck at a time" stuff. I'll answer, I'll answer . . . . Unfortunately there are no specific risk-estimate statistics I can give you, nor would they really... Read more »

HIV risk-unusual transmission?? (MOUTH TO MOUTH CHAMPAGNE, SAKE, AND SHOTS, 2010))

Two months ago I was at a party where a man grabbed me and transferred champagne from his mouth to mine-which I swallowed. he has quite a reputation and now I can't stop worrying about the HIV risk. I know risk from saliva is low but I've...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,Your HIV-acquisition risk is nonexistent. (See below.) As it turns out, you're not the first one to have a champagne cocktail without dirtying up a flute! Go ahead and smooch that hot boyfriend of yours. It's Valentine's Day... Read more »

Infectious fruit, I know it sounds nuts!

Dr. Bob, I have a few cuts in my mouth from dental work. I ate a whole package of fresh raspberries and one of them had something blood red in the middle and tasted like blood, that iron taste. They had been in my fridge for one day, even if it had...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,Infectious fruit??? Yup, it not only sounds nuts; it is totally loony tunes.Don't all-fresh raspberries have "red" inside them? As for that iron taste, it was probably just a worm or bug you were chewing on. Do you really think... Read more »

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Worried Sick.. Is Yeast Infectious for HIV? (Long)

Posted by kdman, 2 Replies

Hey all,

I've been reading these boards and Dr Bob's Q&A's over the past month and a bit... and it's helped as well as disheartened at the same time.

I've been a textbook "Worried Well" over the past several weeks. I hope to believe that severe... Read more »

infectious?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I was washing some clothes(not mine!)that had been soiled with a substantial amount of blood manually and these clothes had been rinsed of the blood and soaking in bleach in water for a few hours already. My concern is that as I was draining the... Read more »

HIV-NEGATIVE AIDS IS INFECTIOUS

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia, or Non-HIV AIDS, is associated with a patented retroviral particle called Human Intracisternal A-Type Particle-Type II, or HIAP-II.

Autoimmune Technologies is developing viral protein antibody tests based on HIAP-II... Read more »

hiv infectious thru cloths?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Im a girl who had a guy rub his penis on my vagina while only having our underwear on.He ejaculated and I know his sperm absorbed through his undies and through my own and surly making contact with my vagina.Is his sperm infectious this way... Read more »

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