Oral Sex & HIV/AIDS

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The Basics

How to Perform Safer Oral Sex (Regularly Updated)
From Williams Students Online
Oral Sex: What's the Real Risk for HIV? (May 2012)
From The Well Project
What You Should Know About Oral Sex (June 2009)
To read PDF, click here.
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Oral Sex (January 1, 2009)
From aidsmap.com
Can HIV Be Transmitted Through Oral Sex? (2009)
From Terrence Higgins Trust
British Survey Suggests HIV Infection Through Oral Sex Is Small, but Real, Risk (August 5, 2004)
A large survey of HIV-positive gay men in the United Kingdom finds that about 3% say oral sex was their only possible risk factor for HIV.
From aidsmap.com
Fellatio (July 13, 2004)
From aidsmap.com
The State of Oral Sex (February 25, 2003)
A new debate over safety in sucking.
In The Village Voice
Cruising With Lazarus: HIV and Oral Sex (November 2001)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
A New CDC Fact Sheet on Oral Sex (January 12, 2001)
In SHOP Talk: School Health Opportunities and Progress Bulletin, from Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States

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News

CDC Issues Fact Sheet on Oral Sex and HIV Transmission (June 5, 2009)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Thoughts About Women and Oral Sex After Visiting the NYC Sex Museum: A Blog Entry by Terri Wilder, M.S.W. (March 15, 2009)
Terri asks: Why in the world aren't there more materials on how people should protect themselves while performing oral sex on a woman?
From Terri Wilder
Casual Sex Becomes Subject for Middle Schoolers (June 17, 2002)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Non-Coital Behaviors That Put Teens at Risk for HIV and Other STDs (January 12, 2001)
Surveys show that many teens don't consider oral sex to be a type of "sex".
In SHOP Talk: School Health Opportunities and Progress Bulletin, from Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
Newsline: National Association of Gay Physicians Classifies Oral Sex as "Low-Risk" but Not "No-Risk" (August 1996)
In HIV Newsline, from San Francisco General Hospital

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