{"id":633,"date":"2008-10-21T13:26:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T12:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=633"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:48","slug":"how-likely-it-is-that-he-will-contract-hiv-from-performing-oral-vaginal-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/633","title":{"rendered":"Is it easy to catch HIV from oral vaginal sex?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The risk is very low and is probably zero if your partner has no problems in his mouth. No cases of HIV transmission have been reported from an HIV-negative man having given oral sex to an HIV-positive women.<br \/>\nThe risk would increase if he has some oral infections, bleeding gums, cuts or ulcers etc especially if this was close to your period.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the risk will be substantially reduced when you start treatment and your viral load becomes undetectable.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m female and HIV-positive with a T-cell count of 571 and a viral load of 6,600. In another week, I will have to begin Combivir and Isentress, because my platelet count is 80 and dropping.<\/p>\n<p>The question that I have is regarding a male friend who is negative and aware of my status. I try so hard to be careful that at times I think that I&#8217;ve become obsessed with protecting us and I&#8217;m not enjoying sex at all because I&#8217;m so frightened.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to him performing oral sex on me, how likely could he contract the virus if I didn&#8217;t use dental dams and all that other stuff to cover my vaginal and anus area?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","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=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24643,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/24643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}