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HIV Transmission
...who were also HIV-infected. The CDC has not yet been able to establish how the transmission took place. No additional studies have found any evidence of transmission from provider to patient in health care settings. CDC has documented rare cases of patients contracting HIV in health care settings from infected donor tissue. Most of these cases occurred due to failures in following universal precautions and infection control guidelines. Most...
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Safe Sex and HIV (CONDOMS) (CONDOM EFFICACY)
Hello Dr. Bob. How are you doing? I was just wondering about something. Has there ever been a CONFIRMED case of someone using proper protection and still contracting HIV? I know you say that if a condom doesn't break and is used properly then the...
Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
...frightened me a lot. The message written on the condom went something like, " although proper use of the condom may protect against HIV/Aids, it does not properly eliminate the risk". That seemed a little bit in contradiction to what I have read... Read more »Risk of catching HIV with a condom? (CONDOM EFFICACY)
Hi,I've read the forum, but still can't entirely find an answer for my question. The situation was receiving anal sex, with a condom, and neither person ejaculated. Don't know the other person's HIV status. How much risk for catching it? I saw some...Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
...archives that address the condom-efficacy question. I also suggest you check the Planned Parenthood Web site and review their document, "The Truth about Condoms." It's well referenced. Now let me show you an example of how statistics can be... Read more »PEP Treatment HELP? (PROPER CONDOM USE, 2009) (PEP AND THE NEED FOR HIV SPECIALIST, 2009)
Hi there, I found your contact details online and your help would be very much appreciated as I am currently in a panic mode! Here it goes: 1. I had anal sex (me top HIV neg) with a partner (bottom HIV pos with viral load 20k 26k copies)...Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
...you reviewed proper condom technique. (See below.)Next, as I have mentioned previously in this forum, anyone who has had an HIV exposure significant enough to warrant PEP should be followed by an HIV specialist. I suggest you contact an HIV... Read more »I am indeed the first documented case
Dear Dr.BobI am crying while I send you this in hopes to be supported. I had protected vaginal sex with a very very very skanky girl. In my defense She lied about being skanky. She told me she only had sex 3 times with protection. She also told me...Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
...Hello,What, another "first documented case" submitted by someone crying into their laptop???? Jeeeeeeez . . . it must be a full moon or something, because you are Read more »
Articles
Unclear Whether Vatican Will Issue Document on Condom Use to Prevent HIV Transmission, Cardinal Says
... A recent papal study on HIV prevention and condom use "shows the desire of the pope" to fight HIV/AIDS and demonstrates that "he is not indifferent to this difficult problem," though it is not clear whether the Vatican will issue Read more »Vatican to Publish Document on Condom Use to Prevent HIV/AIDS, Official Says; Retired Cardinal Calls Condom Use "Lesser Evil"
...Care and other scientists and theologians to study condom use as a means of HIV prevention, and the Vatican will release a document on the subject soon, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, head of the council, said in an interview published on... Read more »Vatican Denies Reports That It Plans to Release Document Easing Ban on Condom Use to Prevent Spread of HIV
...study condom use as a means of HIV prevention, and that the Vatican will release a document on the subject soon ( Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report , 4/27). Barragan over the weekend said the council only is drafting an internal study of the issue,... Read more »
