The risk of HIV is higher if either you or your partner had an active STD. But being "higher" than near-zero doesn't mean much. The risk is nearly zero regardless.
HHH, MD
Thank you for you response. As you said i will not play the what if game. I understand that there is increase risk in catching HIV if one had an STD he was unaware of it. But does the same apply if I was STD free and came into contact with someone with HIV and an STD. Does the activtiy i mentioned change from a non-issue for HIV purposes to something i would need worry about if I acquired an STD.
Thanks
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If you're going to ask speculative "what if" questions, you could go a lot farther than syphilis. Chlamydia? Gonorrhea? Herpes? (Herpes is the major STD risk for HIV transmission.) What if she actually has HIV? And isn't taking antiretroviral therapy?
You can play that game all you want. The important thing is that nobody has ever been proved to acquire HIV by the exposures you describe. The chance she had syphilis, or that you acquired it, is just as low as HIV. You don't need testing for either infection unless, as you say, you develop symptoms that concern you.
HHH, MD