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Can You Catch AIDS From Protected Anal Sex
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Unprotected Oral Sex but Protected Anal Sex between Gay MenHi Mr. Cordova:I'm 24 year old male, had casual sex with an online member of a gay/bi dating site. To summarize my sex history after my HIV testing, the details are the following:December 9, 2010: I had my HIV-AIDS Antigen Test after abstaining...
Response from Richard Cordova III
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Hi there:The window period for HIV testing is three months. It only takes three months to get a conclusive negative test result. In fact, most people who are infected will show up positive by the 28th day. I do not consider protected penetrative sex...
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Odds of contraction for + Bottom (undetectable), - Top having protected anal sexI'm HIV+ and my new boyfriend is negative. I have been undetectable for well over a year. If... Read more »somewhat protected anal sexI had receptive anal sex with a condom however the person touched the outside tip of the condom... Read more »
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AIDS Gel Shown to Protect Anal Tissue From HIVNew research presented at the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston, Feb. 27-March 2, shows that a gel containing tenofovir may help prevent HIV when used rectally. The gel containing Gilead Sciences Inc.'s... Read more »
Factors Associated With Event-Level Anal Sex and Condom Use During Anal Sex Among Adolescent WomenIn the current study, the team set out to examine the distribution of and factors associated with event-level heterosexual anal sex, and of event-level condom use during anal sex, in a group of adolescent women. A total of 387 women, ages 14 to 17... Read more »
Condoms and Condemnations -- Another Look at Unprotected Anal SexBarebacking. Again. For those of you who don't already know (were you abducted by aliens or something?), "barebacking" is what we call it when gay men engage in unprotected anal intercourse. Recently, I read an article in a local gay and lesbian... Read more »
Strangest but Truest Posts in TheBody.com's "Ask the Experts" Forums -- the "Best of Dr. Bob" EditionAs avid readers of TheBody.com are well aware, Bob Frascino, M.D., who'd helmed the Safe Sex and HIV Prevention forum since 2003, was the reigning master of the "Strange but True" question response. On Sept. 17, 2011, "Dr. Bob" passed away suddenly... 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 This risk is... Read more »Protected receptive anal sex
Posted by AnthonyMC, 1 Reply
Hello. I'm a heterosexual guy but more or less 2 months ago I did something I will never forgive myself for, regardless of whether I got infected with something or not: I had receptive anal sex with a transexual sex worker. Now, the intercourse was... Read more » anal sex question
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
just a question to everyone - i work with hiv/aids patients, i am also hiv+, but the other day someone asked me a really strange question, it was "I've had unprotected anal sex with my partner who is hiv+ (16,000 vl, 550 cd4) 25 time or more, what... Read more » anal sex=HIV?
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
I just read something suggesting that maybe AIDS is the result of drugs and anal sex. Think about this: you are having a foreign substance shot into your bloodstream--after so much fighting off "invaders" or semen maybe the immune system is...
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