Can Someone Catch AIDS From Sex With Sex Worker

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unsafe sex practices of sex workers & legality?

Hi Dr Bob, Well done on all the great work you've done into HIV / AIDS - I am sure you have touched many lives.I live in Australia. I'm a 25 yr old male who has never had penile vaginal sex without a condom. This has been for a number...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hey Aussie-dude,No worries mate! She'll be apples, as you downunder boys like to say.1.Assuming your latex condom was used properly and did not break, you would be protected. HIV cannot permeate intact latex. Consequently, even if the semen... Read more »

Oral Sex and Sex Worker

I recetnly had a HIV test, which was negative...however, about a month and a half earlier I... Read more »

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W »

Oral sex with sex worker and a cut lip

Dear Dr. Frascino,I am going nutz thinking about whether I have contracted hiv. To be brief, here... Read more »

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Clients of Commercial Sex Workers Will Determine Course of HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Asia, East-West Center Says

The male clients of commercial sex workers will determine the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia, Tim Brown, a researcher at the East-West Center , said this week at the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, the AP/ South... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Indian Sex Workers Hone Their Art of Love From Kamasutra to Prevent AIDS

In India's eastern state of West Bengal, sex workers are studying the Kamasutra, the ancient Hindu treatise on sex, in an attempt to stem the tide of HIV/AIDS and other STDs. The nongovernmental organization Institute of International Social... Read more »

HIV Advocates, Sex Workers in India Call for Passage of Bill Aimed at Reducing HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma, Discrimination

More than 200 HIV advocates, people living with HIV/AIDS and commercial sex workers rallied in the Indian city of Pune on Thursday, calling for the passage of a bill that aims to reduce HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination, India's Daily News... Read more »

Ugandan Officials Express Concern About Commercial Sex Workers Who Re-Use Female Condoms

Officials and HIV/AIDS advocates in Uganda during a recent meeting expressed concern about commercial sex workers in the country's capital of Kampala who re-use female condoms to protect themselves from contracting HIV or other sexually transmitted... Read more »

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Risk of Catching HIV in Single Sex Act Low

Posted by Anon_E_Moose, 1 Reply

By DANIEL Q. HANEY, AP Medical Editor

CHICAGO (AP) - A study of heterosexual couples in Africa
concludes that the chance of catching the AIDS (news - web sites) virus from a single
sexual encounter with an infected person is one in 588.

This risk is...

PLEASE HELP EX BF Had sex with a SEX WORKER

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

Someone please answer my questions- my EX bf had sex with a sex worker in Spain when he was on a cruise to Bahrain he's in the navy... this was back in Nov - we got together around May and had sex several times - mostly protected but with 2-4 times... Read more »

Oral On Sex worker

Posted by Anonymous

I had protected sex with a sex worker, but I was dumb enough to give the girl oral for a couple minutes. I am freaking out big time. I have read that the chances of catching HIV via oral on a female is low, but I did have a couple oral cuts at the... Read more »

Sex worker

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

I had unprotected vaginal with a sex worker, I know i am stupiud. Tested negative at 4 and a half months. Is this conclusive? What are the chances of false negative and of the clinic messing up my test. Just concened cuz I keep getting these... Read more »

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