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HIV Prevention (Expert Forum)
HIV Risk
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University of Washington
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This forum is limited to prevention of HIV and to safe sex in general. If you believe you might have been exposed to HIV and want help to judge your risk, would like advice about HIV testing, or have questions about the effectiveness of condoms or the risks associated with specific sexual practices, this is the site for you.
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If you have not done so, please review other threads in our archives for questions similar to yours and Dr. Handsfield's replies. Questions that duplicate other frequent ones, for which abundant replies exist, and that have little educational value for other forum users, will be DELETED WITHOUT RESPONSE. YOUR PAYMENT WILL NOT BE REFUNDED. The most common examples of such questions are those about low risk exposures to HIV, such as oral sex, condom- protected intercourse hand-to-genital exposure, and nonsexual contact with possibly infected blood or body fluids as well as symptoms of early HIV infection.
HIV Risk
by Mac99, Jul 24, 2008 10:19AM
Last week I had an sexual contact in one night club in Makarska (Croatia) with one of their employee. She was a very nice girl, but unfortunately during the vaginal sexual contact I lost my condom and I did not feel it. It was the first time I visited night club like this (and definetly the last time...) I would like to ask - if it is possible to say - how much risk did that contact involved and if the HIV virus (if that girl was infected) transfers always through the first contact with an infected person or not. I did read in many internet websites, that the first HIV test can be done at least 6 weeks after a possible sexual contact with an infected person - is that right?
Thank you for any information!!!
Thank you for any information!!!
Doctor's Answer
by H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D., Jul 24, 2008 12:24PM
, Jul 24, 2008 12:24PM
When a woman has HIV, the average risk of HIV transmission to her male partner is about once for every 2000 episodes of unprotected vaginal sex. And statistically, is is most likely that your partner doesn't have HIV, so your risk is lower than that. The standard HIV antibody tests almost always are positive by 6 weeks after a new infection; about 90% of the time, the test is positive by 4 weeks.
All things considered, you don't need to be tested for HIV after such an exposure, unless you have strong reason to believe the woman had HIV. However, all people who are sexually active outside permanent, mutually monogamous relationships should be tested for HIV from time to time, like once a year. So this might be a good time for it, since it's on your mind.
The same questions have been asked and answered many times; please scan the existing threads for more detailed discussions.
Best wishes-- HHH, MD
All things considered, you don't need to be tested for HIV after such an exposure, unless you have strong reason to believe the woman had HIV. However, all people who are sexually active outside permanent, mutually monogamous relationships should be tested for HIV from time to time, like once a year. So this might be a good time for it, since it's on your mind.
The same questions have been asked and answered many times; please scan the existing threads for more detailed discussions.
Best wishes-- HHH, MD
thanks for your help in advance!
There is virtually no risk through vaginal sex when the infected person has a viral load under 50.
Thanks!