{"id":171,"date":"2007-08-21T11:06:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T10:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=171"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:23","slug":"is-there-a-risk-of-transmitting-hiv-chlamydia-or-herpes-by-casual-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/171","title":{"rendered":"Is there a risk of transmitting HIV, chlamydia or herpes by casual contact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your post includes several questions.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, your sister is at risk of catching HIV is she continues to have unprotected sex with her HIV-positive partner.<\/p>\n<p>It is also possible that she may already have caught HIV, as other sexually transmitted infections like herpes increase this risk. It is important that she speaks to a doctor about her own health, if she has not already done this.<\/p>\n<p>HIV and chlamydia are sexually transmitted infections, and are not spread by casual contact, so your baby is not at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Herpes is also generally a sexually transmitted infection, but can sometimes be passed by casual contact. For example if your sister has a cold sore which she touches and then touches the baby. Brushing her teeth will make no difference but washing her hands will stop this risk.<\/p>\n<p>Information on transmission and prevention are included on these links, but there is plenty of other information about this on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Try these first:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk\/articles\/article.aspx?articleid=99\">Information on chlamydia from NHS website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/std\/Herpes\/STDFact-Herpes.htm\">CDC factsheet on genital herpes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herpesalliance.org\/resources_04.htm\">Information on herpes from the herpes alliance<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I am very concerned about me and my 2 year old son.<\/p>\n<p>We are both living with my sister who is having unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man. So far she has been recently pregnant with this mans baby and had and abortion.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mostly concerned about her coming home after 2 days and kissing my son because she never brushes her teeth and I know she has clamidia and herpes simplex.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24621,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/24621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}