zero HIV transmissions when couples had sex without condoms more than 58,000 times<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe study provides some data to answer your concern about low level blips. This is because blips were likely to happen in the study in-between viral load tests – and no transmissions occurred. Also, no transmission occurred when couples had another STI, which can blip viral load in a similar way to some vaccinations.<\/p>\n
Even if a blip occurred in your situation it would not have put your partner at any risk of catching HIV, even if you were having penetrative sex without a condom.<\/p>\n
Oral sex with low viral load and good oral health is also a zero risk, with or without blips. Although oral sex can be a way to catch HIV, this generally needs both very high viral load and poor oral health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0I’ve been HIV positive for a little over 9 months and have been on effective treatment (ART) for coming up to eight months and was undectable after three months.<\/p>\n
Since the publications of the Partner study results and others, I’ve found the courage to start having sexual relationships again.<\/p>\n
I recently gave and received oral sex with a girl whose STD status I obviously cannot be certain of, our mouth health was good, and ejaculation did not occur.<\/p>\n
I have however read that viral load load blips could occur from a recent vaccination \/ illness even with the continued adherence to medication.\u00a0 \u00a0The week previous I had been unwell after receiving the Phenumoccoal and Hep A and B vaccinations, however had been feeling better for 3-4 days before the sexual encounter occured.<\/p>\n
Given the chance of a viral blip, whilst likely to not be significantly high virologically, I am now worried I might have put the sexual partner under undue risk, and am worried I should now tell her about my concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-sero-different-couples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24929,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717\/revisions\/24929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}