{"id":19956,"date":"2022-06-12T16:56:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=19956"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:20:01","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:20:01","slug":"does-uu-apply-if-you-have-a-tear-during-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/19956","title":{"rendered":"Does U=U apply if you have a tear during sex?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you?<\/p>\n<p>U=U only applies to sex. It does not apply to other forms of HIV transmission &#8211; including direct blood contact. While U=U for other forms of transmission significantly reduces risk, evidence is more sparse to show its effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>However, the evidence base for U=U between two PARTNER studies involved serodifferent couples having sex 135000 times. There was no instant of transmission for all types of sex between both hetero- and homosexual couples.<\/p>\n<p>Tears would be expected in this number of sexual encounters. For this reason there is greater evidence to suggest that <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u-qa\/\">U=U<\/a> will still apply even when tears occur during sex than not.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys, I took some interests in the U=U goal and I had some question marks in this breakthrough. My main interest is that since U=U reduces the risks of transmission to zero, what of in circumstances where during sex there is a tear, and we know sex sometimes can be like that, isn&#8217;t that a risk for exposure or it still remains the same U=U? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19956","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\/19956","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25161,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19956\/revisions\/25161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}