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Can You Contract AIDS From Inverted Condom
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Ask the Experts
can you contract aids while wearing a condomtoday in my health class our teacher said that you could get aids by having sex with a partner who has aids while wearing a condom. I thought that if you had a condom on and you had sex with someone with aids then you were alright as long as no...
Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
Hello,This was a "health class?" Your teacher's name should be "Miss Information," because that's what she gave you "misinformation!" I can't imagine why she would tell you something like that, unless...
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Effectiveness of condoms (CONDOMS) (CONDOM EFFICACY)I am confused good doctor...you said HIV can't penetrate a condom no, way no how....why does... Read more »condoms aren't totally safe (CONDOMS) (CONDOM EFFICACY)I don't really have a queston but rather a statement. i'm a 17 senoir in hight school and... Read more »
Articles
Kenyan First Lady Says Young People Should Not Use Condoms to Avoid Contracting HIVKenyan first lady Lucy Kibaki, chair of the Organization of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS , on Thursday said that she is "not in favor" of promoting condoms as an HIV prevention method, Agence France-Presse reports (Agence France-Presse,... Read more »
Condom Use Reduces Young Women's Risk of Contracting HPV, Study SaysYoung women whose partners use condoms every time they have sex are 70% less likely to contract the human papillomavirus than women whose partners use condoms less than 5% of the time, according to a study published in the June 22 edition of the ... Read more »
Between 500 and 700 Mozambicans Contract AIDS Virus Each DayEach day, between 500 and 700 Mozambicans contract HIV, the health ministry said in a report Thursday. About 1.3 million Mozambicans -- or about 7 percent of the population -- are infected with HIV, the report said. "There is the need to break the... Read more »
Brazil Tames AIDS With Needles, CondomsUp to 25 percent fewer Brazilians contracted AIDS last year than in 2000 -- a sign that a controversial program distributing condoms and needles is working, the government said Monday. The estimated number of new AIDS cases in Latin America's chief... Read more »
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Contracting HIV
Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies
Recently my husband found out he is HIV+. At this time I am HIV - but I have only had one test and no viral load test done. We know he was negative in the beginning of last year and now he ha HIV. When I asked him about how he got this he told me...
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Do condoms protect against HIV?
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
Hi, are condoms extremly effective against HIV? I'm just wondering if anyone konws anyone, or contracted HIV while performing safe sex? I'm sure the virus has to have been transmitted whle condoms were used in the past a few times or so by some...
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Condom
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
Has any one heard of a person contracting HIV after they used a condom, while performing intercourse with a possibly HIV infected person?Read more » Contracting HIV/AIDS
Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies
If a person has AIDS and affected another person, will that other person have AIDS or will he/she be HIV+? Me and my ex-boyfriend broke up about 2 years ago. I haven't spoken to him since we broke up. 2 weeks ago, he contacts me and we've been... Read more »
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