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QUESTION: my girlfriend works in a clerical job in a hospital. she gave me a blowjob today. she had an ulcer in her mouth. she also fingered the penis hole with her nails before giving me oral. by the way her mouth sore was not bleeding though. what are my chances of getting infected. the whole activity did not last for more than 5 minutes & there was no visible bleeding from my penis hole.

i asked her if she was feeling ill or was having flu like symptoms to which she said that she DID NOT have any such symptoms & that the ulcer was because she had eaten fish & that it was too hot plus she had been on night duty. i do not suspect her having illicit relations with anyone else.

ANSWER: Hello Karan!

Open sores increases the risk of HIV and STI transmission. Duration of sex act is not a significant issue here. IF she is not involved with any other relations, and does not have any kind of STIs, there is no risk of transmission. And not necessarily all the sores are symptoms of STIs or any other infectious diseases. Therefore, I think you can relax.

Have a nice day.

Best regards,
Gorkey

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QUESTION: if there is no blood coming outta her sore, can i still get infected with HIV??

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Dear Karan,

Thanks for coming back again.

CDC confirms that exposure to saliva uncontaminated with blood is considered to be a rare mode of HIV transmission. That means, if there is no blood coming out of her sore, there is no risk at all. Also, for your information, there is no known evidences so far that someone have been infected from saliva, that is uncontaminated with blood.

Thanks and best regards,
Gorkey.

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Gorkey Gourab

Expertise

Social and behavioral issues related to HIV transmission, sexually transmitted infections, Human Rights issues, rights of marginalized populations, gender and sexuality, research design and analysis related social & behavioral issues, , computer assisted qualitative data analysis and data management (using ATLAS.ti, ANTHROPAC, NVivo 8)

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Specialized in Medical Anthropology. Working on Social and behavioral studies related to HIV transmission as well as Human Rights issues. Specialization in gender, sexuality, masculinity, behavioral studies related to HIV transmission. Qualitative research, programmatic and M&E experience with MSM, hijra (TG), indigenous groups, female sex workers for more than 7 years.

Organizations
International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) as Manager - M&E (Qualitative) with Center for HIV and AIDS

Publications
International peer-reviewed journals & technical papers: (1) Khan, S. I., Hussain, M. I., Parveen, S., Bhuiyan, M. I., Gourab, G., & Bhuiya, A. (2009). Living on the extreme margin: Social exclusion of the hijra in Bangladesh. Journal of health, population and nutrition. (2) Khan, S. I., Hussain, M. I., Gourab, G., Parveen, S., Bhuiyan, M. I., & Sikder, J. (2008). Not to stigmatize but to humanize sexual lives of the transgender (hijra): condom chat in the AIDS era. Journal of LGBT Health Research (Special issue: issues on male sexual behaviors and HIV risk in South Asia). Working papers: (1) Khan, S. I., Gourab, G., Ahmed, T., Sarker, G. F., Chowdhury, F. K., Ghosh, S., et al. (2009). Understanding the operational dynamics and possible HIV interventions for residence-based female sex workers in two divisional cities in Bangladesh. Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children USA and icddr,b. Presentations in scientific meetings and conferences: (1) Khan, S. I., Hussain, M. I., Gourab, G. & Azim, T. (2011, 16 March 2011). Use of a new approach to count and access diverse groups of hijra for scaling up HIV-preventions services in Bangladesh. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Scientific Conference (ASCON XIII), Dhaka. (2) Khan, S. I., Pasa, K., Gourab, G., & Islam, A. (2007). Indigenous populations of Bangladesh: Living with risks and vulnerabilities to STIs/HIV. 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP). Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Education/Credentials
MSS (Anthropology), University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Awards and Honors
The Vanderbilt-UAB Fogarty International Center AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP)Scholarship for the training on HIV-AIDS related qualitative data analysis and manuscript writing (Center for Global Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)

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