HIV Oral Sex Policy of MedHelp

[jdf784gf89]

Hello,

I've researched though some old posts that state many times that MedHelp considers oral sex - both giving and receiving - not a risk for transmitting/getting HIV. Is this still the stance of this site? Has your policy changed recently on this?

Thanks.

[Sara_MHModerator]

Hello, when you say you are having trouble loading the pages, are you speaking of the archive here at MedHelp of the HIV Prevention expert forum?  Here is a link to that:  http://www.medhelp.org/forums/HIV---Prevention/show/117.


However, it is now read only as the forum is closed to new questions.  We wish you all the best and are now closing this thread.

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[Kirstie_MHModerator]

Hi - you can still search the old doctors forums on here: http://www.medhelp.org/forums/HIV---Prevention/show/117

There isn't a way to narrow it down by timeframe, unfortunately.  However, please note that no doctor on this site, and no doctor that we know of who is an expert in HIV transmission has changed their stance over the past few years.  HIV has been a known virus for over 30 years now, and while the information about it has been consistently updated (mostly in regards to treatment), the way in which HIV is transmitted has been understood for many years. There aren't any "new ways" that HIV transmission has become known.

[Chima7]

No. Changing the stance would be going backward in the knowledge that has been acquired by all of the experts who have been studying this disease since it first came up and figured out how the disease is and is not spread. Why would you think they would change their mind?  

[jdf784gf89]

Thanks for reply. Previously there were a couple great DRs on here that really helped with the "No oral risk" policy but I do not see them now and wondered if they had left due to policy change, new data, or if their absence had resulted in a change of policy on here. I forget what their names were now though.

[Chima7]

They left because MedHelp was acquired by a new parent company that decided not the keep the expert forum open. There were experts for many other diseases not just HIV so for you to draw that assumption is incorrect. The advice that is currently given here is in line with the same advice that was given by those doctors by the volunteers who answer questions here. Therefore, if anyone questions the advice they are given by a volunteer, they are free to review all of the previously answered questions by the experts to see that the answers are the same.

[jdf784gf89]

Is there a means to search by data on here? A way to search only during the point in time when those Drs were still posting here? I found their posts very helpful.

Side note: and perhaps I'm not meant to ask this at all but are those DRs still active on any websites or forums? Did they move someplace else after the new parents company took over?

[jdf784gf89]

Oh, I didn't know about that. For anyone that's spent time there, do they still hold the same stance on giving/receiving oral today as previously when they were posters here? That it's no risk?

I'm not really able to get the pages to load properly for some reason and search doesn't work well...