{"id":11815,"date":"2016-08-11T17:06:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T17:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11815"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:09","slug":"is-hiv-transmitted-by-oral-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11815","title":{"rendered":"Is HIV transmitted by oral sex?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Oral sex is generally a low risk activity. However this depends on knowing the status of your partner and, if they are positive whether they are on treatment with an undetectable viral load.<\/p>\n<p>Please see the i-Base testing guide for information on the risks of transmission from oral sex.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/oral-sex\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/oral-sex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know your partners HIV status (he said he was negative), or if they are HIV positive with a detectable viral load, then giving a man oral sex should be considered a potential risk for transmission. If you have poor oral health this risk may be high.<\/p>\n<p>Having a HIV test is the only way to be certain of your status. HIV testing is free in the UK, where I see you are from.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for more information on testing and transmission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/hiv-transmission-and-testing\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/hiv-transmission-and-testing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a male who had sex with a male about 2 months ago. He happened to have bad breath at that time and I feel he just brushed his teeth before having sex with me to prevent bad mouth odour. We practiced oral sex and deep kissing. A week before today I went to the doctor for an oral checkup and she found out that I have gingivitis. The person I had sex with stated to me that his HIV status is negative but I am not sure how far this is true. Is it possible that the person I had sex with transmitted HIV to me through oral sex or deep kissing and hence I have encountered gingivitis? Should I get an HIV test done?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24251,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815\/revisions\/24251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}