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Oral Sex: What's the Real Risk for HIV?

Table of Contents Introduction Studies on the Risks of Oral Sex Tips for Safer Oral Sex Taking Care of Yourself Introduction The chances of HIV being passed from one person to another depend on thetype of contact. HIV is most easily spread, or transmitted, through unprotectedanal sex, unprotected vaginal sex, and sharing injection drug equipment.Unprotected sex means sex in which no condoms or other barriers are used. Oral sex...

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Test result

Doctor,I have asked you a question.I got my hiv duo Ultra test result, which says I'm confused positive or negative?Index of Antibody =0.09Index of P24 Antigen = 0.02Thresholds and Interpretation of Result: Index i Interpretation...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Both of those test results are < 0.25, and therefore the test result is nonreactive.... Read more »

nerve meds

good morning,my boyfriend's doctor took him off his nerve pill an changed his hiv meds to 1 pill a day,he also has a cough for awhile what could that be?? thank you...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

On the face of it, there doesn't seem to be any issue with the medication change, or that it is related to a cough. But the devil is in the details. Cough is a very nonspecific symptom that could be related to many medical conditions like... Read more »

big drop in cd4 and cd4 percentage

I was diagnosed with hiv/aids and Kaposis September of 2011 with a cd4 of 71, cd4% of 15 and vl of 18,000 and started Atripla at that time. my cd4 rose to 100 after the first month of treatment and 119 by the 4th month and vl was undetectible, my...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Absolutely. Interferon is well known to decrease white blood cell (WBC) counts, including CD4 counts. Since your viral load is still undetectable, this is extremely unlikely to be related to failure of your HIV meds.... Read more »

Raltegravir Resistance

Hi Doctor Mark. My story is this. I get infected with a high resistance virus, my first medications were truvada and kaletra, unfortunately I developed resistance to both and my doctor decided to add raltegravir to my meds one year ago. The trouble...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Well the devil is in the details, as to exactly what mutations are present in the reverse transcriptase, protease and integrase enzyme sequences to know exactly how to proceed. The regimen your doctor is considering would not be a bad approach. But,... Read more »

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10 days before for the first time & I made a big mistake.

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