AboutKristen Brannock, MPH Expertise I can answer any of your questions concerning HIV infection and AIDS. This includes ways it can and cannot be transmitted, how it is treated, how it affects the body and methods to protect yourself. I can also answer questions concerning safer sex and contraception.
Experience I trained with the Red Cross to be an HIV/AIDS counselor and I am a member of CARES- Carolina AIDS Resource Education Service.
Organizations CARES and trained by the Red Cross I also have my Master of Public Health in Health Behavior and Health Education.
Question QUESTION: I am a healthy 30 years old circumcised male. I had sex with a chinese prostitute
last night in kuwait, however, i did not use a condom for the first minute or so
of the intercourse. I then came to my senses and used one.
What is the risk of me contracting aids in the short time i didnt use a condom?
ANSWER: Anytime infected blood, semen, vaginal fluid and/or breast milk enter another person's body, transmission is possible. That's about all I can tell you- if you want to know your status, you need to get tested.
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QUESTION: How about this ratio everyone is talking about.. the 1 in 1,000 chance of getting
aids by vaginal sex.. is that ratio true.. it sounds very promising. It seems that
you have to have very bad luck to get it.
Answer I don't work in statistics because there are many things that can affect whether a person contracts HIV or not- not just the type of unprotected sex that they have. I cannot say one way or another what the "chance" is for each individual because there are different individual factors that affect risk.
