HSV2 & HIV

[Nosleep1972]

If a male is infected with genital HSV2 from a female , is it possible at the same exact time the male could to be infected with HIV if the female carries both viruses.

If the HSV2 virus infects the male genital area,  what is stopping the HIV doing the same at the same time?

[Edward W Hook, MD]

I'm sorry but these are "what if" questions that have no basis in reality and no relevance.  the answers will not in any way help you to assess your risk.  The bottom line is that if you have sex with an HIV infected person, with or without herpes, it will reduce your risk more than 1000-fold so that the risk for infection approaches 1 in a million. Put another way, you are statistically much more likely to be hit by lightening than to get HIV when a condom is used properly.

I have nothing more to say.  Let's end this exchange.  EWH

[Nosleep1972]

all this durinng the one encounter

[Nosleep1972]

Thank you again.

To be more specific it is a question of a general nature as follows:

if someone has protected sex and is infected with HSV2 at the bottom of the penis shaft where the condom does not cover - is this same area a passage for HIV also given the HSV2 has entered this area?

[Edward W Hook, MD]

Welcome back to the Forum.  In preparing to address your questions I reviewed your earlier posts.  I note that after our past interchange you continued to ask questions about HSV of Teri on the HSV site and received answers in agreement with the advice I provided.  Now, you are asking questions about HIV which are asked in an abstract way.  Are these theoretical concerns or specific.  In your evaluations for HSV, haven't you also been tested for HIV.  I would have thought so.

In answer to your theoretical question, of course it is possible to get HSV and HIV at the same time.  It is uncommon however.  It is irrelevant to you however since you do not have HSV.  EWH