Do I Need Penetration To Get Hiv

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No Penetration, No HIV?

Dear Dr. Bob,You already stated "no penetration, no HIV".I had sex with a prostitute. Well...sort of sex. Just a hand job and some rubbing. No oral, no penetration.Are you definetly? No risk at all? No need to 12 weeks test?Are you going...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Brazilian Worrier,Yep, I'm sure. No need for HIV testing if all you had was a five-fingered wank job.Nope. No time for Italy this trip. But I will be there this summer. Speaking of summer, it's already summer in Brazil, isn't... Read more »

Possibility of HIV risk from non-penetration? "Transmission risk from brief exposure"

Hi there! Though I've found some answers in this forum on the subject of the risk of brief... Read more »

Response from Erik Glenn, M.A. »

HIV without penetration through underwear

Dear Doctor Frascino, I am a 23 year old Heterosexual male living in Ireland. I recently (stupidly)... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Is Injection Serosorting Occurring Among HIV-Positive Injection Drug Users? Comparison by Injection Partner's HIV Status

"Research needs to build evidence for the roles that HIV status of injection partners may or may not play in injection risk behaviors of injection drug users (IDUs)," the authors wrote in introducing the current study. Using baseline data from a... Read more »

Pennsylvania: Housing and HIV Go Hand in Hand

Philadelphia is beginning a needs assessment to better chart the intersection of HIV and housing issues for 2012-17. More than 140,000 HIV-affected U.S. households struggle with unstable housing, according to the National AIDS Housing Coalition.... Read more »

To Stop HIV Spread,Bridge the Divide Between "Privileged" and "Forsaken"

"With less than half the people who need treatment having access and with each day more people becoming infected with HIV than are started on treatment, we are mortgaging our future. But we are also exposing a fundamental social injustice -- between... Read more »

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CAN U GET HIV WITHOUT PENETRATION

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

CAN ANYONE HELP ME...I AM ON MY PERIOD NOW AND WAS FOOLING AROUND WITH A MALE OF UNKNOW HIV STATUS...I HAD A TAMPON IN S THERE WAS NO PENETRATION BUT HE DID RUB HIS MALE PARTS ON MY GENITAL AREA I KNOW HE DID NOT CUM BUT THERE MAY HAVE BEEN PRE... Read more »

No penetration = no HIV?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I picked up a guy last night in the bar and I am male. We went back to my place. One thing led to another and his penis was rubbing between my butt cheeks from behind me and he ejaculated there and some flew up on my back, too and ejaculate oozed... Read more »

Anal penetration

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

Hey,
yesterday I was on the bed and the guy who was on top of me penetrated me for 2 second without condom, then he sat on my dick and my dick penetrated his ass also for 2-3 second...what are my chances of aids?
I didnt want it, he did it within a... Read more »

Penetrating partner

Posted by MIKE7777, 1 Reply

I'm 18 years old, 3 days ago i had sex with a women who was 35, anal sex, it was unprotected for about 2-3 minutes, then i pulled out and put a condom on, which then the sex lasted for about 5 minutes, She seemed as though she never had anal sex... Read more »

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