Can You Contract AIDS From Oral Sex

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Is HIV contracted through oral sex

I was diagnosed to be HIV positive in October 2002. Oral sex was performed on me (I am a female) in early December, without protection. Did I give it to the guy? He has been tested and it came back negative? How long does it take to show up....

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Chances are your partner need not fear if all that happened was oral sex. Several studies have shown that the risk of oral HIV transmission is extremely low and even more so when it is a woman who is infected and is having oral sex performed on... 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... Read more »

whats my chance of getting AIDS by giving oral sex

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

About 3 weeks ago I gave oral sex to a sex worker in China. It lasted for about 1-2 minutes and I didn't feel any cuts in my mouth. What would be the possibility of me contracting AIDS this way assuming if she was HIV positive?

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unprotected oral sex

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

i have been worrying for about a year now that i may have contracted HIV through a couple of unprotected oral sex encounters with my ex boyfriend, he wasn't very nice to me and tried to make me have sex with him without a condom. I refused. However,... Read more »

Chances of contracting

Posted by giambi25, 1 Reply

If you sleep with somebody(unprotected vaginal) who is hiv+ what are the chance of becoming pos? Also what does oral thrush look like?

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