4% is if you don't use any precautions other than just avoiding sex any time she has anything going on genitally. Using a condom would reduce it to about a 3% risk.
4% means, if 100 guys who were hsv2-, had sex over the course of a year with their hsv2+ female partners, 4 of them would contract hsv2 over the course of the year.
grace
"on average your risk is 4%/year of contracting hsv2 from her. " grace
what do you mean by 4%, 4% out of a 100? is this 4% even if i use a condom or unprotect sex.
when you try to ask questions in someone else's post on the expert forum, they bump it into the patient to patient forum ( in case you are wondering how your question ended up here ).
if your gf has hsv2 and you don't and you avoid sex during anytime she has anything going on genitally, on average your risk is 4%/year of contracting hsv2 from her.
grace