{"id":639,"date":"2008-10-23T15:42:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=639"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:48","slug":"can-hiv-be-transmitted-through-kissing-or-giving-oral-sex-if-i-have-gum-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/639","title":{"rendered":"Can I catch HIV through kissing or giving oral sex if I have gum disease?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>If the HIV-positive partner has a high viral load and semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculation fluid or blood get in contact with the area of the gum disease there is a risk of transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Even though oral sex is generally called a low risk activity, it is estimated to account for 5% of infections.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no documented cases of HIV infection from kissing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. If the HIV-positive partner has a high viral load and semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculation fluid or blood get in contact with the area of the gum disease there is a risk of transmission. Even though oral sex is generally &hellip;<\/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-639","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\/639","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=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24641,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/24641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}