What Is The Risk Of Getting HIV From Sperm

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Reducing the Risk of Getting HIV From Injection Drug Use

What Is the Risk? How Can Transmission Be Prevented? Injection Drugs & Hepatitis Needle Exchange Programs Drugs, Sex and HIV Transmission What Is the Risk? It is well documented that people who share syringes are at risk of being infected with HIV. Sharing syringes allows a direct exchange of blood from one person's body into the bloodstream of another and is one of the most efficient ways to spread blood-borne...

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Donor HIV+, sperm in freezer (no MD supervision), at risk?

My sperm donor recently tested positive for HIV. 5-9 months ago, he donated sperm which I kept in my freezer and used twice (with no resulting pregnancy). How high is my chance of infection and would PEP be recommended at this late in the game....

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,I would assume (and certainly hope) the sperm donor was HIV tested prior to donating "5-9 months ago." If he only recently tested HIV positive, we can therefore assume he contracted the virus recently (sometime after he tested... Read more »

Anxiety Case: HIV-risk of sperm through underwear.

Dear Robert,I didn't find any question or answer of the following kind in the archive so therefore my question.In what should have been a nice foreplay with a boy (I'm gay) while we had still both our underwear on, we were rubbing our...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Frequent Surfer Belgium Guy,Relax Belgium Boy, your HIV-acquisition risk is so extremely remote it becomes essentially nonexistent, even if your buddy squirts like the Old Faithful geyser. The only reason to even consider HIV testing would be... Read more »

sperm washing-hiv discordant couples

Dear Mr. Sowadsky, I can't believe that I have found someone willing to address my concern of sperm washing in the possible elimination of the virus in sperm. I have read all of your articles regarding this and will bookmark this page. My...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Hi,Thank you for your question. Your interest in this procedure is actually more common than you may realize. I have personally been surprised how many couples have come to me wishing to learn more about "sperm washing", and artificial... Read more »

we want children! how safe is sperm washing? (HIV AND PREGNANCY, 2011)

My name is andy, i am hiv 1 positive with cd4 count of about 700 because my cd4 is high i have not started taking my drugs,my wife is negative,we want to start having children,my question is how safe is sperm wash because i don't want to infect...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi, Andy.Working closely with an HIV specialist and an HIV-knowledgable obstetrician, serodiscordant couples can reduce the risk of HIV transmission almost to zero. I'll post some recent information below plus see the link for additional... Read more »

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Sperm

Posted by Anonymous

Is there anyone that could help me with this question.I am a female and i was giving unprotected oral to a man and he pulled out i didn't get any sperm in my mouth but some shot on my face and in my eye,what is the risk getting sperm in my eye if... Read more »

what is sperm washing???

Posted by posneg, 3 Replies

if anyone has read any of my other post, you will see im new to this. my bf of 2yrs. is +, we recently found out. we are both very scared of what the future holds for us both. before we found this out, we were planning on getting married, having... Read more »

Penis Glans and the risk of contracting HIV

Posted by dopey33, 3 Replies

I am seriously concerned. Yesterday, I had a guy give me a blow job and then we masterbated each other. The thing that concerns me is that some of his cum ended on my penis when he finished. Although the cum landed in the middle on my penis, it... Read more »

Getting Pregnant Hiv +/- couple

Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

I am a HIV + woman engaged to a HIV - man. We want to have a baby. What are the options on getting pregnant?? Is artificial insemination the only way?? I read on this website that it's possible to "do it yourself", insert the mans sperm in the... Read more »

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