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HIV - Time it takes to Show ?

Can HIV stay in the Urethra, or Scrotum Sac, and not enter into the system(blood) till years later. i.e if it doesn't find a week point to enter the body. And therefore stay un-dected for years.

Or if you have it in the urethra it will definately give you a postive result within 3 months?

Will HIV definately show up after 3 months once inside the urethera

How does it work?
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480448 tn?1426948538
Well, THAT is the problem, peter.  There, unfortunately are a LOT of misconceptions out there about HIV...and a lot of uneducated, naive, ignorant people.  There is a lot of misinformation.  HIV is a disease tha one can only study subjectively in many ways.  For instance...risk factors and causes.  Until many of the studies that we often cite were done...the medical community had to rely solely on a person's WORD as to how they got infected.  Hence, why there is still misinformation.  Of course there were people who lied about the manner in which they contracted HIV.  Now there are FACTS.  People need to know what the FACTS are.

I work with a LOT of people (professionals, health care workers) who still think they can get HIV if they shared the same glass, heck...some even think if they BREATHE the same air.  This is why the whole HIV education system and outlook needs to be re-vamped and changed to reflect REALITY, not scare tactics.
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186166 tn?1385259382
dr hansfield's comment (medhelp)

"Exposure to menstrual blood roughly doubles the risk of HIV transmission."
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186166 tn?1385259382
his first post on this forum...sept 4th.

"I had a protected encounter with lady in a massge parlour, in UK"
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186166 tn?1385259382
say what?  where is UNPROTECTED SEX mentioned?
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Peter65925,

Thanks for your constructive answer. It helps to have explanation to stop unwarranted stress

Rgds,
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186166 tn?1385259382
ONCE AGAIN...WRONG INFORMATION ! ! ! !

hiv is found in menstrual blood...geeeeeeez
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186166 tn?1385259382
first things first...YOU HAD PROTECTED SEX ! ! ! !

the answer to your first question is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

NOW MOVE ALONG...
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