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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

On the Eve of World AIDS Day, Surgeon General's HIV/AIDS Assessment for America: Good ... Bad

Washington, D.C. -- On the eve of World AIDS Day, Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General David Satcher said that although infections may have fallen, HIV/AIDS still represents a severe and ongoing crisis in America, particularly for men... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Assessment of HIV Testing of Urban Injection Drug Users: Implications for Expansion of HIV Testing and Prevention Efforts

In the current study, the researchers set out to "determine the extent of HIV testing among urban injection drug users (IDUs) to assess whether an expansion of targeted testing programs would be consistent with national goals to identify previously... Read more »

Current Economic Assessments of HIV/AIDS Impact on World Economy Incomplete, Report Says

Current assessments of how HIV/AIDS affects the world economy are incomplete, according to a report released on Tuesday by TD Economics , a financial analysis group, Canada's National Post reports (Mavin, National Post , 8/9). According to the... Read more »

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Just made donation- please help assess HIV risk

On June 30 of last year I had protected sex with a CSW. She put the condom on me with her mouth and it stayed on the whole time during intercourse. I have two possible risk factors and subsequent possible symptoms.1. I had a sliver in my index...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,HIV is not your problem. So I'll be brief.1. Even with the recently removed sliver your HIV-acquisition risk is negligible. (This assumes the latex condom was used properly and didn't fail.)2. Water from the washcloth dripping onto... Read more »

Viral Load and Risk Assessment

In the 1 1/2 years I have known I am hiv-positive I have been fairly sexually active, including being the penetrator in both vaginal and anal intercourse (with informed and willing partners). I always use a well-lubricated latex condom and, with...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Hi. Thank you for your question. The Quantitative PCR test, also known as aviral load test, can find HIV at levels as low as 400 copies/ml of blood. Iflevels of HIV are lower than this (which is certainly possible), the test maynot be able to... Read more »

Risk Assessment

Dr. Bob,I'm HIV poz and my partner is neg. We've been very careful until tonight. We were sleeping and he was knocking at the back door. While still half asleep, I let him penetrate me unprotected. After, I noticed some blood on the...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,PEP would be warranted for the situation you describe and should be started as soon as possible after such an exposure. Unprotected insertive anal sex with a partner confirmed to be HIV positive, who is not on combination antiretrovirals and... Read more »

Risk assessment

I wanted to assess AIDS transmission risk in thefollowing incident. Your help will be appreciated.After vaginal intercourse using condom, when thecondom is removed from the penis, if the the condomwith vaginal fluids comes in contact with the tip...

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

Your risk is minimal. See <a href="http://www.thebody.com/Forums/AIDS/SafeSex/Current/Q134892.html" target=_new>How to take off a condom</a> for more info.RMK... Read more »

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Risk Factor and Assessment

Posted by Anonymous

I have a question for anyone who is knowledgeable in HIV infection risk factors.

About 15 weeks ago I had unprotected sex with a female stripper for about 40 seconds to a minute. I stopped her after that. I did not ejaculate. In the following six... Read more »

Risk assessment, or, how screwed am I?

Posted by ratherconcerned, 1 Reply

Hi, I'm a male who has sex with men, and I have an HIV-related concern. My last negative HIV test was on 4/7/08, which was 45 days after an unprotected encounter with another guy who I know fairly well and who claims to be HIV-. (I was both the... Read more »

RIsk assessment Dr, expert, or clinicians, ??????

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I had sex with two different prostitutes. What I am worried is that I don't know if they used the right lube. Both times, condom did not break. Howver, once, the condom slipped all the way to the glans of my penis. My front glan was exposed but... Read more »

risk assessement please, i am scared

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

2 weeks post possible exposure: (no other exposures in the past)
1-diarrhea (resolved in one day with over the counter meds)2- severe abdmoinal pain 3- neck tighness +sore throat 4- loss of appetite.5-chills twice, mild night sweats twice6-loss of... Read more »

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