would not violate any fundamental law of physics, like Conservation of Mass, Energy, Entropy, Momentum; the Pigeonhole principle (no 2 objects can occupy the exact same space at the exact same time).
So the times I have disagreements with established medical science, it's really issues "on the fringe" - NOTHING fundamental, NOTHING that "overthrows the tenets of science, evolution", etc.
And to all: anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is real AND serious AND happening now.
...microbiology, microbiology lab, basic aseptic technique in a lab, polymerase chain reaction, etc etc and even *I* would never assert anything on my own with such assinine certainty that goes against conventional science.
That's NOT to say that certain things that are taken as "laws" in biology - e.g. if I had shingles as an adult, then I MUST have had chickenpox as a kid - are mere strong correlations: i.e exceptions have not been observed, but an exception would not violate any
What is it with people who assert such ridiculous falsehoods, e.g. "you cannot get AIDS by oral sex", with such confidence? I can understand if someone who really is not knowledgeable being skeptical and wondering HOW that is possible and asking WHY? But this degree of confidence on blatantly wrong ideas, which totally saturates the internet, can be attributed to nothing but the Dunning-Kruger effect and extreme political agendas.
Actually, I have a non-HIV-AIDS question. I would think that pretty much ANY virus in the body could be transmitted sexually, even those not normally classified as STDs.
e.g. I had shingles, so I know I have the varicella zoster virus in me.
I wonder if I could transmit THAT, even though its dormant location is in my nerve endings.
Last gave blood 2009, and no sex since then. So, I know I am clean of the things they test for.
@mphello: This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. IIRC, the virus that causes chickenpox (on first exposure) and shingles (later in life) is generally only considered transmissible by an adult when the virus has become active and the adult has an active shingles outbreak. Other viruses affect specific tissues in the body and genital-to-genital sexual contact in and of itself wouldn't pose a risk of transmission (although being in close proximity to the person's cough or sneeze would).
@mphello Shingles normally only present when the immune system is compromised or weakened most notably in the elderly or over 50s. It is caused by the virus that causes chicken pox in infants and then is held in check by the immune system.
you cannot get hiv through oral sex period insertive oral sex is a theoretical risk receptive is1 in 10000 and most doctors say that is way to high saliva does not transmit hiv. u can get hiv through unprotected vaginal sex/anal and sharing needles breat milk and mother to child. always use condoms as they are EXTREMLY effective against tranmissin of hiv, unless the condom breaks or slips of during sex u have no need to be tested. HIV does not break through a condom.
@noobymooby: Clarification: HIV can be transmitted to either partner via oral sex. See our vid "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One." Of course, one of the partners must have been exposed to HIV in the first place for transmission between them to be possible.
@jokobeniasu: This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. It's possible. Go to the aidsvideos site and click "Risk" and "FAQ." Watch our videos "What's the Risk I Have Contracted HIV?" and "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One." See a doctor; get tested; follow the doctor's instructions including for any follow-up testing.
@RoboMuffins: Go to the aidsvideos site and click "Risk" and "FAQ." Watch our videos "What's the Risk I Have Contracted HIV?" See a doctor; get tested; follow the doctor's instructions.
And it is also assumed, via consensus, that the possible contagion of blood transfer is possible, but not after the temperature change of the blood, as it is now out of the body and in much water, would render it ineffective. So regardless of your claim on the video that it does not, you elude to it immeditely after. And do not say you only meant infection in general, because her question was specifically about AIDS, and you confirmed her fears. Such colossal shame.
@cruzangringa: Reading down in the thread, I see the post you're referring to. My statement above: "Don't drink water that's been contaminated with either blood or saliva. That will reduce your risk of contracting various infections." is absolutely correct and absolutely good general health advice. I did not specifically address her question about HIV. I'm not in the business of encouraging people to drinking contaminated water, even if it doesn't increase their risk of HIV.
@cruzangringa: Second, you're oversimplifying her question. She asked about water with blood in it. Exposure to saliva (e.g. via light kissing) isn't believed to pose a risk of HIV transmission. Exposure to undiluted blood (e.g. if splashed on an open cut, or on a cut in your mouth) absolutely can pose a risk of HIV transmission. Now blood in water? Well, now it gets more complicated. Diluted by how much water? How long was the blood in the water?
@cruzangringa: I can't possibly quantify the potential risk posed by different concentrations of blood in water for various periods of time in a 500-character YouTube comment response, so I didn't attempt to (and won't). I simply gave her good health advice: "don't drink water contaminated with blood or saliva." That should reduce her risk of contracting Hepatitis A, for example, or various infections that are waterborne or can be transmitted via exposure to saliva.
I have contacted Anderson Cooper at CNN who, I have to say was a little more interested that I thought he would be. Especially in a doctor who tells a poster that to keep from getting AIDS, she should not drink water with saliva potentially in it. And although you may be fooling yourself into thinking that you are in the clear because you do your "Cant get it from kissing or shaking hands" routine, BUT then immediately after post that to avoid AIDS, you should avoid water with a drop of saliva
@cruzangringa: Fantastic, if true -- I'd love to talk to AC! Unfortunately, you're wrong about everything. First of all, Dr. Kuhn has never posted any comments to the AIDSvideos videos on YouTube. I, Eric, respond to the comments, as noted in the profile. Second, I've never said that you need to worry about HIV transmission through shared food or drink utensils.
@cruzangringa: OK, now I read down and found the exchange you're referring to. Contrary to your claim, I never posted that "to avoid AIDS, you should avoid water with a drop of saliva." I said that avoiding drinking water contaminated with blood and saliva will reduce your risk of various infections, which is a true statement. Her question is not only about saliva. It's about blood AND saliva, which is much more complicated as I noted in my response above.
I see you have taken down/not posted my post, but after a couple of days of researching you (since you say on this site that hiv can be caught by drinking after someone), I had enough information to contact the CDC regarding you, questioning weather perhaps I am wrong, and asked the CDC if they have changed their claim that it cannot be caught by tears and saliva. I also forwarded your info and what is written on this site (so you cannot erase what you said now, as they have already seen it)
@cruzangringa: This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. I have no idea what you think you read or where, but for the record, I have never said or written that HIV can be transmitted through sharing food or drink utensils, because there in fact is no evidence that it can. You're mistaken in thinking that I wrote that. Would love to see what you are referring to.
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@cyih8u: That *can* happen. The risk of female-to-male transmission is lower than the risk of male-to-female transmission. See our vid "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One" to see estimated relative risks of various sexual practices. But the risk is real so everyone should know their HIV status, inform partners before sex, and use condoms if they choose to be sexually active.
@AIDSvideos yea, they have been telling us the male-female/female-male thing many times before...but if its easier for women to get it more than men...then why do way more men have it than women?
@cruzangringa: You have your facts wrong. "Slightly more than half of all people living with HIV are women and girls." -- UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, 2010 Edition, p.10
@AIDSvideos She was asking if she could get AIDS from drinking after someone...and you are saying yes! after all this time of being told AIDS cannot be caught by simply kissing, sneezing, or drinking...you actually are saying that yes AIDS can be caught by drinking after someone...oh wow, you need to be seriously investigated...
@cruzangringa: This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. My statement above: "Don't drink water that's been contaminated with either blood or saliva. That will reduce your risk of contracting various infections." is absolutely correct and absolutely good general health advice. I did not specifically address her question about HIV. At no time have I ever stated that food utensils are believed to be a route of HIV transmission; they aren't.
@danrichards23: A square of latex used as a barrier when performing oral sex on a woman or when "rimming." You can buy them online. Or, you can cut the end off a latex condom and cut it down the shaft to make one that way.
i hEARd ThAT ThERE iS A CURE fOR hiV/AidS . bUT ThE COUNTRY ThAT hAS iT [i fORGOT WhiCh ONE] WOUldNT GiVE iT 2 ThE U.S. GOVERNMENT, ThEY OffEREd BilliONS 2 hAVE iT bUT ThEY JUSZ WUldNT bUY . ThEY RAThER C PPl SUffER ANd diE . ThAT iS JUSZ SO WRONG .
@ashleababy01: What you heard is an urban legend. There is no known cure for HIV/AIDS anywhere in the world. (A bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to HIV was used to put one person's HIV in functional remission, but since the bone marrow transplant procedure itself has a higher fatality rate than HIV, that procedure can only be used for HIV+ people who have to have a bone marrow transplant for other reasons anyway.)
god i hate those people who know they have it YET they still sleep around without using protection. it is them that we need to run over with cars and remove from the population. HOWEVER i have the most respect for those who are honest about it to their partners and go around giving talks about it.
@truexromancex: It's true that having sex with a person without informing them in advance that you're HIV+ is morally wrong (and also a criminal offense in many places). However, there's a better solution than "running them over with cars." HIV+ who have sex with others without informing them in advance can be prosecuted under the law and brought to justice through the legal system. Prison sentences are a legal way to isolate criminals from contact with others.
@AIDSvideos i know. i was just angry. cuz i know a dude who is very sick with it cuz his bf gave it to him and dumped him right away. but yeah i agree and am very hapy to know that it is a chriminal ofence. now if only evreyone was informed eh
Had a very risky exposure with someone and I got tested for it. It came out negative at 3 months from exposure. It came out negative again after 8 months from exposure. One of the test consist of blood work. Knowing that... would I still be negative? I heard that it takes years to get hiv from exposure from some experts and other expets denies that. Please help?
i went over a year and 4 neg tests before i was given a pos reading. all could of been avoided by my partner being faithful or if nothing else honest and most of all me for not praticing safe sex
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. Depends on the degree you want to get. You could get a Master's in Public Health which should take 1-2 years after you complete any prerequisite requirements. (For adult learners who must keep working, this can be done online at Capella and APEI, among other institutions, by the way.) You could get an M.D., which is four years plus your residency. You could get a Ph.D., which typically takes five years. You could get an M.D./Ph.D, which is longer.
we are the virus to earth too, we can move and live about everywhere, we spread everywhere no matter the climate or waether condition and most of all we damage the earth-s nature and climate with our actions.
aids is part of the world population reduction agenda used to discourage sex, the government already have the cure from the very beginning. they also use other propagandas such as feminism to lower birth rate and increase divorce rate.
wow they need to study those people whose hiv hasn't progressed to aids. maybe if they find out that those people have some type of bodily substance that reduces the progress of hiv, they could find a way to inject that substance into people that have hiv. to help them. btw 6:31 is the dumbest myth i've ever heard!
This is Eric. There are two receptors that HIV-1 uses to get in to CD4 cells: CCR4 and CCR5. A lot of the long-term non-progressors have a mutation so one of the receptors is missing or different, which makes it hard for HIV to enter the cell and gives some degree of resistance to the person. There is research underway on approaches like genetic therapies that might take a person's stem cells, give them this mutation, and reinject them so the person could produce resistant CD4 cells themselves.
She states that one cannot tell if someone is HIV positive by looking at them, but this is a myth. I was born with the ability to diagnose HIV and conjoined twins just by looking at the person.
This myths are stupid only a person not informed would believe them I would like to know things like life expentacy to the one who got infected.
People who talk about hiv cure are not in tune with reality the cure will not come at least in 50 years from now and I don´t believe that not even then a cure will be found...
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. (1) There's no "single best" HIV medication. The drugs are normally used in a "triple cocktail" of three drugs. Different people have different strains of HIV and tolerance for different drugs, therefore only your doctor can work with you to determine which combination is best for you. (2) EGCG from green tea? They aren't expecting it to be a cure, just a potential additional treatment.
No I'm not talking about Green Tea, I'm talking about something else. You can see the video here on youtube, just search "HIV CURE" watch it and let me know what you think.
You can only get HIV by exchange of body fluids so as long as the condom doesn't split or someone touches both sides of the condom you will be fine. However you can get HIV through using an unsterilised needle that someone with HIV has used you are very likely to get HIV.
See our video "The Importance of Condom Compliance." Studies of married couples where one is HIV+ and one is HIV- suggest that "typical use" of condoms (in which couples may not use it every time or may not use it correctly) reduces the risk of transmission in heterosexual by about 85% vs. the risk of unprotected sex. "Perfect use" (correctly, every time, every sex act) may be far better; there were no transmissions at all in the Padian study among the "perfect use" couples.
SCREW THAT! I pos' people like everyday and they love it! I have AIDS orgies in my basement, but it's just "AN orgy" to all the HIV negatives who saw my ad on Craigslist! WEAKEN THE BREED, SPREAD TAINTED SEED!!!
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. Oral tests for HIV can give you a result within as little as 20 minutes. See our video "The Top Ten Questions About HIV Tests" for more information.
my aunt had a blood transfusion in the 80s, and she died 5 years ago, with three young children left motherless. For everyone that we cast aside for doing something "wrong" to get HIV, we let people like my aunt get sick and die. Oh, and to the denialits, she didn't have a staph infection, never used drugs, was physically fit, and got all of the vitamins and minerals she needed from her abundant back yard garden and local farmers market. and no, she never took ARVs.
First of all let me say that I am sorry for the lost of your aunt. It's always hard to loose a loved one. However, I am a little disturbed by your comment "something wrong to get HIV". No one ever does anything intentionally to get HIV and I really thought that we as a society had gotten past the premises that this is a gay disease. So in closing NO ONE should be cast aside. Not your aunt or anyone else. Bless you
This is Eric. I agree no one should be cast aside, and I also agree we shouldn't create "classes" of HIV+ depending on how they contracted the disease. One thing I need to point out: unfortunately, there are some people who deliberately seek to become infected with HIV. See the documentary "The Gift" and wikipedia article "Bugchasing and giftgiving" for details.
I woman I picked up on the street gave me unprotected oral sex for about 10 seconds and I stopped her after that point because I was uncomfortable with the whole experience. I did not ejaculate and there was no other contact between us. Needless to say I learned my lesson but what would you say are the chances she passed anything to me?
I am worrying so bad right now that I have trouble sleeping. I was wondering what the chances were of getting that disease through oral sex the way I had it?
See our video "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One" for details about per-encounter risk for various sexual practices including receptive oral sex such as you experienced. Also see wikipedia's article on "HIV" for a table showing transmission risk estimates. Go to the doctor, tell them your history and risk factors, get tested for HIV, and follow their instructions for follow-up testing and anything else. Glad you learned the lessons: avoid paid, casual, and unprotected sex!
Thank you for that info and I did watch your videos. However, I am wondering how those percentages apply to my situation? Do those percentages mean prolonged exposure with the infected parter?
My main question would be that considering the exposure I had, which was 10 seconds at best, what would you say the chances are that I caught anything from her giving me oral sex for that short a time period?
See our video "What's the Risk That I Have Contracted HIV?" As that video notes, in the end, you really can't precisely estimate the percentage risk that a particular individual has contracted HIV. Just get tested, use protection if you're sexually active until a doctor gives you the "all clear from that possible exposure," and don't worry too much in the meantime. Also, I'm unaware of any studies that quantify risk at the "per seconds of encounter" level.
Thank you for posting some truth about this epidemic, I was getting sick to my stomach reading HIV is a secret government ploy for population control. Damn some people really need to be educated.
Follow-up: it's worth noting that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommended in September 2006 that all patients age 13-64 years be tested for HIV when they visit the doctors office. So although mass screening of elementary school children still would not be cost effective, research has shown that in the U.S., doing an HIV test for every patient at a routine doctor's office visit (a visit they make for other reasons anyway) is in fact cost effective.
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. I'm aware of no specific connection between mononucleosis and HIV. HIV/AIDS weakens your immune system, so people with HIV/AIDS might be more susceptible to mononucleosis just as they are to other infections, but that would not be an issue specific to mononucleosis.
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. Food preparation is not believed to pose a risk of HIV transmission for a variety of reasons including the fact that HIV breaks down quickly outside the body, cooking kills it, etc.
i wouldn't care if i got HIV AIDS. i know there is a cure 100%. there were 2 sports stars Magic Johnson a former LA Lakers b ball player and he has had HIV since 1992 and a boxer Tommy Morrison who got it in 1995. and they are both alive as healthy as everyone else. they were cured cuase they were straight and had alot of money. the gov has been keeping the cure a secret for years. cuase they don't want to help people. plus it is like 80% of the people who get AIDS are gay. and 20% are straight
The median time in the developed world between contracting HIV and developing clinical AIDS is 10 years without treatment. With monitoring, treatment, and good nutrition, sleep, and general health, you may be able to live a normal lifespan with HIV. So it's not surprising that wealth athletes who contract HIV can still look healthy today. Also, worldwide, the majority of people who contracted HIV did so through heterosexual sex.
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. I doubt it would be possible to eradicate SIV since you'd have to have a vaccine (we don't, AFAIK) and then vaccinate all the primates who are hosts for it (chimps, sooty mangabeys, etc.) to prevent further spread. HIV in humans could be eradicated if we completely stopped transmission until all people who are HIV+ die of natural causes. But that too would be nearly impossible to pull off right now. What we really need is a safe, effective vaccine for HIV.
Does giving cunnilingus to a women has a high chance of contacting aids? I heard that the saliva can kill the virus? so how come there still is risk og contacting HIV? And also what about the risk of contacting HIV with an infected person using a latex condom?Is it 100 % safe?
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. It is possible to contract HIV by performing cunnilingus. See our video "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One" for more info. If you use condoms correctly every time you have sex for every sexual act, it greatly reduces your risk of contracting or transmitting HIV but DOES NOT reduce the risk to zero. It's not a guarantee.
AIDS was first *noticed* in the medical community because U.S. doctors noticed multiple young men dying of pneumonia, which was quite unusual. The thing they seemed to have in common was being gay. But we've since found evidence for earlier cases of HIV in stored blood samples. Gay men in the U.S. then and now have a higher rate of HIV than the general population due to higher rates of unprotected anal sex (which is high risk) and some men with higher numbers of partners (also risky).
There's no reason to believe that HIV is of extraterrestrial origin. HIV-1 is genetically extremely similar to chimp SIV and HIV-2 is genetically extremely similar to sooty mangabey SIV. It's obvious that HIV jumped to humans from SIV in those two animals, likely due to blood exposure through hunting of them. See [Reeves JD, Doms RW. "Human immunodeficiency virus type 2." J Gen Virol. 2002 Jun;83(Pt 6):1253-65.]
HIV-1 jumped to humans from the related SIV in chimpanzees. HIV-2 jumped to humans from the related SIV in the sooty mangabey monkey. [Reeves JD, Doms RW. "Human immunodeficiency virus type 2." J Gen Virol. 2002 Jun;83(Pt 6):1253-65.]
I would like to thank you for posting this video. There are some groups of people who believe that HIV/AIDS is a myth, and denial of the existence of this disease can only lead to more infections.
she's trying to solution HIV by advising people to have safer sex rather than be more cautious and practicing monogamy, abstinence etc... HIV virus is 10,000 times smaller of a pore of latex condoms, u still can acquire HIV with all this concept of safe sex, this plague is solutioned by lifestyle change and prevention! as it is said "prevention is better than cure and because there is really no cure for HIV"
The argument about latex pores is a red herring spread by people who want to raise doubts about the effectiveness of condoms. Water molecules are far smaller than the pores of latex condoms, but condoms still hold water. Oxygen molecules are far smaller than the pores, but latex condoms still hold air like a balloon. Why? Because the pores don't overlap. Condoms, if used correctly for every act, are a highly effective means of reducing your risk of contracting HIV.
MTCT is not how ALL HIV+ Africans were infected. In Africa, there's a significant amount of heterosexual sexual transmission of HIV. However, it would be fair to say that MTCT is more common in Africa than in the developed world due to the higher rate of HIV among pregnant women and less access to antiretroviral medications that can prevent MTCT.
O and what if a person with aids starts to bleed and leaves spots everywhere and you touch it not knowing that its blood but you go and wash your hands and start eating with your hands can you get aids?
If a HIV+ person's blod comes in contact with an open wound of yours, only then can you contact HIV. Not if you eat it, or if it stays outside the body for long.
This disease scares me so bad that i'm waiting to get married before i do anything. But my question is what if someone with aids starts bleeding everywhere and a janitor or something comes and cleans it up and you go in there and you touch the same spot in which the aids victim bleed from not knowing and not thinking you don't wash your hands and you start eating with your hands can you get aids?
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. You are NOT at risk of contracting HIV from a surface where HIV+ blood was present but has already been cleaned up. HIV only remains viable outside the body (i.e. on a dry surface) for about 10 minutes anyway. PLUS as long as your skin is intact (no open cuts or sores) you're protected by the barrier of your skin.
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. If you and your partner have never had an STD, you have a baseline (ordinary) risk of contracting a sexual disease if exposed to it. See our video "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One" for details. If a person has another STD (e.g. herpes or syphilis) it increases their risk of contracting other STDs.
Your video is highly misleading in that it de-emphasizes the huge gulf of risk between different types of behaviors. Pretending that the likelihood of a lesbian spreading hiv to another is anywhere in the same statistical universe as that of homosexual males engaged in typical behavior, which involves hundreds of anonymous partners a year, is a horrible deceit -- and it is precisely this dishonest approach which has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of homosexual males. Shame on you.
Nonsense. This video does not "de-emphasize the huge gulf of risk between different types of behaviors." It makes specific reference to such differences where appropriate in context. This is a high-level introduction. It is not intended to and does not specify precise statistical risk differences in behaviors. For that, see "Some Ways HIV is Transmitted and the Risk of Each One." This video pretends nothing and all its statements are accurate. Your statements, by contrast, are false.
Finally, I think your statement "homosexual males engaged in typical behavior, which involves hundreds of anonymous partners a year," reveals your true agenda. I don't know what the average # of partners per year for a gay male is in the U.S. or elsewhere (let alone anonymous partners per year), but I very much doubt that "hundreds of anonymous partners a year" is "typical behavior." It seems that you want to caricature male homosexual behavior and diminish the risks of heterosexual sex.
True. That's why the video says "Although the risk of an HIV positive woman infecting another woman by having sex is lower, the risk is still not zero." No "huge disservice" there either.
Actually, you need to be more precise. The estimated risks for unprotected sex are: receptive anal intercourse 50/10,000; receptive penile-vaginal intercourse 10/10,000; insertive anal intercourse 6.5/10,000; insertive penile-vaginal intercourse 5/10,000. [See wikipedia article on HIV for source citations.] So receptive vaginal intercourse is riskier for the woman than insertive anal intercourse is for the man. This correlates well with observed patterns in the heterosexual epidemic in Africa.
You are correct that the risk of contracting HIV via oral sex is lower than anal/vaginal sex. That's why the video says "Although the risk of spreading HIV through oral sex may not be quite as high as through some other sexual practices such as vaginal or anal sex, the risk is still there." We are in agreement. No "huge disservice" there.
"Not quite as high" is a completely inappropriate and misleading phrase to use when the chances of acquiring hiv through oral sex is thousands of times less than it is through anal sex.
Once again, you are making factually incorrect statements. The risk of acquiring HIV through oral sex is not "thousands of times less than it is through anal sex." Unprotected insertive anal sex is estimated to be about 13 times riskier than unprotected insertive fellatio. Read the wikipedia article on HIV and watch our video "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One" before commenting further. There are better uses for my time than correcting your errors one comment at a time.
hey i went to the doctor and then i went to this other place where they take my blood and pee and here is the thing will they check for hiv and other stds or they are just checking for some other stuff
true, but it started out as a race specific disease spread to wipe out all the black ppl. but its WAY to slow. people say they should use Ebola to lower population. it would wipe out 90% of the population instantly
I don't know if that's true, but if there is a guy who actually created the virus in order to infect someone, then this guy should be tortured for years before being brutally killed.
its funny i have aids and i have fucked about 100 people and made them fucked for life lol. if ur wondering why i had sex with so many people is because i travel a lot lol
would not violate any fundamental law of physics, like Conservation of Mass, Energy, Entropy, Momentum; the Pigeonhole principle (no 2 objects can occupy the exact same space at the exact same time).
So the times I have disagreements with established medical science, it's really issues "on the fringe" - NOTHING fundamental, NOTHING that "overthrows the tenets of science, evolution", etc.
And to all: anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is real AND serious AND happening now.
mphello 3 months ago
...microbiology, microbiology lab, basic aseptic technique in a lab, polymerase chain reaction, etc etc and even *I* would never assert anything on my own with such assinine certainty that goes against conventional science.
That's NOT to say that certain things that are taken as "laws" in biology - e.g. if I had shingles as an adult, then I MUST have had chickenpox as a kid - are mere strong correlations: i.e exceptions have not been observed, but an exception would not violate any
mphello 3 months ago
What is it with people who assert such ridiculous falsehoods, e.g. "you cannot get AIDS by oral sex", with such confidence? I can understand if someone who really is not knowledgeable being skeptical and wondering HOW that is possible and asking WHY? But this degree of confidence on blatantly wrong ideas, which totally saturates the internet, can be attributed to nothing but the Dunning-Kruger effect and extreme political agendas.
I have an Associate in Biotechnology, so I've had
mphello 3 months ago
Actually, I have a non-HIV-AIDS question. I would think that pretty much ANY virus in the body could be transmitted sexually, even those not normally classified as STDs.
e.g. I had shingles, so I know I have the varicella zoster virus in me.
I wonder if I could transmit THAT, even though its dormant location is in my nerve endings.
Last gave blood 2009, and no sex since then. So, I know I am clean of the things they test for.
mphello 3 months ago
@mphello: This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. IIRC, the virus that causes chickenpox (on first exposure) and shingles (later in life) is generally only considered transmissible by an adult when the virus has become active and the adult has an active shingles outbreak. Other viruses affect specific tissues in the body and genital-to-genital sexual contact in and of itself wouldn't pose a risk of transmission (although being in close proximity to the person's cough or sneeze would).
AIDSvideos 3 months ago
@AIDSvideos Thanks!
mphello 3 months ago
@mphello Shingles normally only present when the immune system is compromised or weakened most notably in the elderly or over 50s. It is caused by the virus that causes chicken pox in infants and then is held in check by the immune system.
Clempt90 2 months ago
Too bad there isn't a cure for stupidity, either.
mphello 3 months ago in playlist HIV Denialist Christine Maggiore Debunked
you cannot get hiv through oral sex period insertive oral sex is a theoretical risk receptive is1 in 10000 and most doctors say that is way to high saliva does not transmit hiv. u can get hiv through unprotected vaginal sex/anal and sharing needles breat milk and mother to child. always use condoms as they are EXTREMLY effective against tranmissin of hiv, unless the condom breaks or slips of during sex u have no need to be tested. HIV does not break through a condom.
sorass1 9 months ago
@sorass1: HIV can be transmitted to either partner via oral sex. See our vid "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One."
AIDSvideos 3 months ago
if me and my partner are both clean and i gave him oral sex.does this mean i have aids?
nubcakesssx3 10 months ago
@nubcakesssx3
No. People contract HIV through semen and vaginal fluids. NOT saliva.
Why are you asking if you're both clean?
noobymooby 10 months ago
@noobymooby: Clarification: HIV can be transmitted to either partner via oral sex. See our vid "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One." Of course, one of the partners must have been exposed to HIV in the first place for transmission between them to be possible.
AIDSvideos 10 months ago
@nubcakesssx3 WHAT? no no. If someone has it they can give it to you. It cant come out of nowhere.
safarsafar1234 8 months ago
is it possible for me to get HIV since my penis was licked as well as my anus??
please anyone respond......
jokobeniasu 1 year ago
@jokobeniasu: This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. It's possible. Go to the aidsvideos site and click "Risk" and "FAQ." Watch our videos "What's the Risk I Have Contracted HIV?" and "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One." See a doctor; get tested; follow the doctor's instructions including for any follow-up testing.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
@AIDSvideos
What. No. HIV doesn't spread through saliva.
noobymooby 10 months ago
@noobymooby another myth
RoyalAntarcticanNavy 9 months ago
is it possible for me to get HIV since my penis was licked as well as my anus??
please anyone respond......
jokobeniasu 1 year ago
Thank you doctor!
turoniner 1 year ago
i fingered my gf and i had a cutt on my finger and she blead!! do i have aids?
RoboMuffins 1 year ago
@RoboMuffins: Go to the aidsvideos site and click "Risk" and "FAQ." Watch our videos "What's the Risk I Have Contracted HIV?" See a doctor; get tested; follow the doctor's instructions.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
I have a question. how about someone with hiv kissed you and there saliva got on your lips where you were bleeding? (it was an open cut)
reesemitchell 1 year ago
help!
im paranoid
i kissed a girl about 8 weeks ago. i kissed her on da lips. just for a sec.
is it possible that i got aids??
im paranoid...
imsoterriblybored 1 year ago
@imsoterriblybored: Watch the video again--in particular myth #8.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
And it is also assumed, via consensus, that the possible contagion of blood transfer is possible, but not after the temperature change of the blood, as it is now out of the body and in much water, would render it ineffective. So regardless of your claim on the video that it does not, you elude to it immeditely after. And do not say you only meant infection in general, because her question was specifically about AIDS, and you confirmed her fears. Such colossal shame.
cruzangringa 1 year ago
@cruzangringa: Reading down in the thread, I see the post you're referring to. My statement above: "Don't drink water that's been contaminated with either blood or saliva. That will reduce your risk of contracting various infections." is absolutely correct and absolutely good general health advice. I did not specifically address her question about HIV. I'm not in the business of encouraging people to drinking contaminated water, even if it doesn't increase their risk of HIV.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
@cruzangringa: Second, you're oversimplifying her question. She asked about water with blood in it. Exposure to saliva (e.g. via light kissing) isn't believed to pose a risk of HIV transmission. Exposure to undiluted blood (e.g. if splashed on an open cut, or on a cut in your mouth) absolutely can pose a risk of HIV transmission. Now blood in water? Well, now it gets more complicated. Diluted by how much water? How long was the blood in the water?
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
@cruzangringa: I can't possibly quantify the potential risk posed by different concentrations of blood in water for various periods of time in a 500-character YouTube comment response, so I didn't attempt to (and won't). I simply gave her good health advice: "don't drink water contaminated with blood or saliva." That should reduce her risk of contracting Hepatitis A, for example, or various infections that are waterborne or can be transmitted via exposure to saliva.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
I have contacted Anderson Cooper at CNN who, I have to say was a little more interested that I thought he would be. Especially in a doctor who tells a poster that to keep from getting AIDS, she should not drink water with saliva potentially in it. And although you may be fooling yourself into thinking that you are in the clear because you do your "Cant get it from kissing or shaking hands" routine, BUT then immediately after post that to avoid AIDS, you should avoid water with a drop of saliva
cruzangringa 1 year ago
@cruzangringa: Fantastic, if true -- I'd love to talk to AC! Unfortunately, you're wrong about everything. First of all, Dr. Kuhn has never posted any comments to the AIDSvideos videos on YouTube. I, Eric, respond to the comments, as noted in the profile. Second, I've never said that you need to worry about HIV transmission through shared food or drink utensils.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
@cruzangringa: OK, now I read down and found the exchange you're referring to. Contrary to your claim, I never posted that "to avoid AIDS, you should avoid water with a drop of saliva." I said that avoiding drinking water contaminated with blood and saliva will reduce your risk of various infections, which is a true statement. Her question is not only about saliva. It's about blood AND saliva, which is much more complicated as I noted in my response above.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
I see you have taken down/not posted my post, but after a couple of days of researching you (since you say on this site that hiv can be caught by drinking after someone), I had enough information to contact the CDC regarding you, questioning weather perhaps I am wrong, and asked the CDC if they have changed their claim that it cannot be caught by tears and saliva. I also forwarded your info and what is written on this site (so you cannot erase what you said now, as they have already seen it)
cruzangringa 1 year ago
@cruzangringa: This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. I have no idea what you think you read or where, but for the record, I have never said or written that HIV can be transmitted through sharing food or drink utensils, because there in fact is no evidence that it can. You're mistaken in thinking that I wrote that. Would love to see what you are referring to.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
I'm riding to end AIDS. From June 5-11, 2011, I'm bicycling in AIDS/LifeCycle. It's a 7-day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to make a world of difference in the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS.
Please take a moment to check out my page at bforthecure . org and donate if you can. I won't stop riding until AIDS is gone for good. All donations directly benefit the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and are tax-deductible.
Thanks for your time.
ride4lives 1 year ago
Explain to me how someone that tested positive never gave it to their husband while they had unprotected sex for like ten years?
cyih8u 1 year ago
@cyih8u: That *can* happen. The risk of female-to-male transmission is lower than the risk of male-to-female transmission. See our vid "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One" to see estimated relative risks of various sexual practices. But the risk is real so everyone should know their HIV status, inform partners before sex, and use condoms if they choose to be sexually active.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
@AIDSvideos yea, they have been telling us the male-female/female-male thing many times before...but if its easier for women to get it more than men...then why do way more men have it than women?
cruzangringa 1 year ago
@cruzangringa: You have your facts wrong. "Slightly more than half of all people living with HIV are women and girls." -- UNAIDS Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, 2010 Edition, p.10
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
Ewww...
rangumai 1 year ago
Will you please review the scientific evidence and documentation in a matter that all of us can understand? Thank you.
StageNameSadie 1 year ago
duhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
jimmypubeface23 1 year ago
ha aids? what's so bad about aids ?just think of all the fun ways we could get it.
seriously folks be responsible
love to get your hate mail send away thanks
xspettacolare 1 year ago
if the sylivia blood mix with water and drink it, will i have AIDS?
lalat44 1 year ago
@lalat44: Don't drink water that's been contaminated with either blood or saliva. That will reduce your risk of contracting various infections.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
@AIDSvideos She was asking if she could get AIDS from drinking after someone...and you are saying yes! after all this time of being told AIDS cannot be caught by simply kissing, sneezing, or drinking...you actually are saying that yes AIDS can be caught by drinking after someone...oh wow, you need to be seriously investigated...
cruzangringa 1 year ago
@cruzangringa: This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. My statement above: "Don't drink water that's been contaminated with either blood or saliva. That will reduce your risk of contracting various infections." is absolutely correct and absolutely good general health advice. I did not specifically address her question about HIV. At no time have I ever stated that food utensils are believed to be a route of HIV transmission; they aren't.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
@ashleababy01: There's no cure yet.
joha5125 1 year ago
what is a dental dam?
danrichards23 1 year ago
@danrichards23: A square of latex used as a barrier when performing oral sex on a woman or when "rimming." You can buy them online. Or, you can cut the end off a latex condom and cut it down the shaft to make one that way.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
i hEARd ThAT ThERE iS A CURE fOR hiV/AidS . bUT ThE COUNTRY ThAT hAS iT [i fORGOT WhiCh ONE] WOUldNT GiVE iT 2 ThE U.S. GOVERNMENT, ThEY OffEREd BilliONS 2 hAVE iT bUT ThEY JUSZ WUldNT bUY . ThEY RAThER C PPl SUffER ANd diE . ThAT iS JUSZ SO WRONG .
ashleababy01 1 year ago
@ashleababy01: What you heard is an urban legend. There is no known cure for HIV/AIDS anywhere in the world. (A bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to HIV was used to put one person's HIV in functional remission, but since the bone marrow transplant procedure itself has a higher fatality rate than HIV, that procedure can only be used for HIV+ people who have to have a bone marrow transplant for other reasons anyway.)
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
@AIDSvideos Ohh . NOW i C . Ok .
ashleababy01 1 year ago
god i hate those people who know they have it YET they still sleep around without using protection. it is them that we need to run over with cars and remove from the population. HOWEVER i have the most respect for those who are honest about it to their partners and go around giving talks about it.
truexromancex 1 year ago
@truexromancex: It's true that having sex with a person without informing them in advance that you're HIV+ is morally wrong (and also a criminal offense in many places). However, there's a better solution than "running them over with cars." HIV+ who have sex with others without informing them in advance can be prosecuted under the law and brought to justice through the legal system. Prison sentences are a legal way to isolate criminals from contact with others.
AIDSvideos 1 year ago
@AIDSvideos i know. i was just angry. cuz i know a dude who is very sick with it cuz his bf gave it to him and dumped him right away. but yeah i agree and am very hapy to know that it is a chriminal ofence. now if only evreyone was informed eh
truexromancex 1 year ago
i wish there was CURE FOR HIV/AIDS..
andyastro1 2 years ago 4
Thanks for this video.
Added to my HIVAIDS-playlist
Gaygreetings from holebis ♥♂♂,♀♀♥
Holebis 2 years ago
Had a very risky exposure with someone and I got tested for it. It came out negative at 3 months from exposure. It came out negative again after 8 months from exposure. One of the test consist of blood work. Knowing that... would I still be negative? I heard that it takes years to get hiv from exposure from some experts and other expets denies that. Please help?
spacesex101 2 years ago
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. Watch our vid "The Top Ten Questions About HIV Tests."
AIDSvideos 2 years ago
i went over a year and 4 neg tests before i was given a pos reading. all could of been avoided by my partner being faithful or if nothing else honest and most of all me for not praticing safe sex
h2d2jaxfl 2 years ago
hey how long does it takes to study aids or be an epidemiologist
RockCritic666 2 years ago
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. Depends on the degree you want to get. You could get a Master's in Public Health which should take 1-2 years after you complete any prerequisite requirements. (For adult learners who must keep working, this can be done online at Capella and APEI, among other institutions, by the way.) You could get an M.D., which is four years plus your residency. You could get a Ph.D., which typically takes five years. You could get an M.D./Ph.D, which is longer.
AIDSvideos 2 years ago
make all the excuses you eant that was a doctor
curt1mc 2 years ago
I subscribed and favored this video.
Fira777 2 years ago
this video is fuckin stupid
gertyup 2 years ago
Myth #2... You need a sore or some sort of open cut do contract it through oral... and even with that, the chances are extremely low.
jjdd8181 2 years ago
Does anybody know what percentage of gay men are HIV+? I have heard anywhere from 2-40%.
flyguy380 2 years ago
we are the virus to earth too, we can move and live about everywhere, we spread everywhere no matter the climate or waether condition and most of all we damage the earth-s nature and climate with our actions.
FcRc200 2 years ago
THESE MYTHS ARE STUPID!
lhc232 2 years ago
aids is part of the world population reduction agenda used to discourage sex, the government already have the cure from the very beginning. they also use other propagandas such as feminism to lower birth rate and increase divorce rate.
frankenstein6666 2 years ago
if i got hiv i would either kill myself or spread it to as many as possible as an act of vengance
abbyjr 2 years ago
thats horrible. i would problaby kill myself too.
thiebvan 2 years ago
lmao
MrShaunGerardo 2 years ago
i wouldn't b surprised america made this disease
94WAIPAHUblocc 2 years ago
wow they need to study those people whose hiv hasn't progressed to aids. maybe if they find out that those people have some type of bodily substance that reduces the progress of hiv, they could find a way to inject that substance into people that have hiv. to help them. btw 6:31 is the dumbest myth i've ever heard!
fearsveil 2 years ago
This is Eric. There are two receptors that HIV-1 uses to get in to CD4 cells: CCR4 and CCR5. A lot of the long-term non-progressors have a mutation so one of the receptors is missing or different, which makes it hard for HIV to enter the cell and gives some degree of resistance to the person. There is research underway on approaches like genetic therapies that might take a person's stem cells, give them this mutation, and reinject them so the person could produce resistant CD4 cells themselves.
AIDSvideos 2 years ago
gogo stem cell research!
803brando 2 years ago
that myth is the dumbest i've heard lmao, i can't believe ppl actually believe such a myth.
DaBadd3stBitch69 2 years ago
you forgot about the most known myth. a purple monkey had sex with a guy
gianthobo123 2 years ago
Thank you doctor...it's good to know!
luzberta 2 years ago 7
she sure knows how to make a dramatic voice and face look.
mrkatamura 2 years ago 3
ftw @ 6:31????
HOTnDiZZY 2 years ago
if you get aids, don't spread it you fucking retarded inconsiderate fools. Keep your aids to yourself don't make others suffer.
conman2317 2 years ago 14
the world is ment to suffer
from gettn AIDS to not gettn laid
94WAIPAHUblocc 2 years ago
her expressions...
bobog123 2 years ago 2
She states that one cannot tell if someone is HIV positive by looking at them, but this is a myth. I was born with the ability to diagnose HIV and conjoined twins just by looking at the person.
bobbybodickerson 2 years ago
wow
GGRSC 2 years ago
You must have also been born with an accute assholism.
camror23 2 years ago
Please consider also that hepatitis c is a much more common disease.. Nobody talks about it..
bollotox 2 years ago
This myths are stupid only a person not informed would believe them I would like to know things like life expentacy to the one who got infected.
People who talk about hiv cure are not in tune with reality the cure will not come at least in 50 years from now and I don´t believe that not even then a cure will be found...
surferdanoite 2 years ago
2 questions: 1-Which HIV med is the best out there? 2-Have you seen the promising breakthrough in Houston about the possible cure for HIV?
amorhombre 3 years ago
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. (1) There's no "single best" HIV medication. The drugs are normally used in a "triple cocktail" of three drugs. Different people have different strains of HIV and tolerance for different drugs, therefore only your doctor can work with you to determine which combination is best for you. (2) EGCG from green tea? They aren't expecting it to be a cure, just a potential additional treatment.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
No I'm not talking about Green Tea, I'm talking about something else. You can see the video here on youtube, just search "HIV CURE" watch it and let me know what you think.
amorhombre 2 years ago
OK, I watched it. I hope they're able to develop it into a medication that is shown to be effective in controlled human clinical trials.
AIDSvideos 2 years ago
I hope so too.
amorhombre 2 years ago
Can somebody tell me what are the chances of acquiring HIV despite wearing a condom?
need4peace 3 years ago
being free from sex until u marry.....
mised4ever 2 years ago
You can only get HIV by exchange of body fluids so as long as the condom doesn't split or someone touches both sides of the condom you will be fine. However you can get HIV through using an unsterilised needle that someone with HIV has used you are very likely to get HIV.
Scoforever 2 years ago
See our video "The Importance of Condom Compliance." Studies of married couples where one is HIV+ and one is HIV- suggest that "typical use" of condoms (in which couples may not use it every time or may not use it correctly) reduces the risk of transmission in heterosexual by about 85% vs. the risk of unprotected sex. "Perfect use" (correctly, every time, every sex act) may be far better; there were no transmissions at all in the Padian study among the "perfect use" couples.
AIDSvideos 2 years ago
SCREW THAT! I pos' people like everyday and they love it! I have AIDS orgies in my basement, but it's just "AN orgy" to all the HIV negatives who saw my ad on Craigslist! WEAKEN THE BREED, SPREAD TAINTED SEED!!!
earthnuggets 3 years ago
if you have a sti test how long does it take for the results to come?
wwfownage 3 years ago
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. Oral tests for HIV can give you a result within as little as 20 minutes. See our video "The Top Ten Questions About HIV Tests" for more information.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
my aunt had a blood transfusion in the 80s, and she died 5 years ago, with three young children left motherless. For everyone that we cast aside for doing something "wrong" to get HIV, we let people like my aunt get sick and die. Oh, and to the denialits, she didn't have a staph infection, never used drugs, was physically fit, and got all of the vitamins and minerals she needed from her abundant back yard garden and local farmers market. and no, she never took ARVs.
burntflybog 3 years ago
Hi,
First of all let me say that I am sorry for the lost of your aunt. It's always hard to loose a loved one. However, I am a little disturbed by your comment "something wrong to get HIV". No one ever does anything intentionally to get HIV and I really thought that we as a society had gotten past the premises that this is a gay disease. So in closing NO ONE should be cast aside. Not your aunt or anyone else. Bless you
SheilaPope2 3 years ago
This is Eric. I agree no one should be cast aside, and I also agree we shouldn't create "classes" of HIV+ depending on how they contracted the disease. One thing I need to point out: unfortunately, there are some people who deliberately seek to become infected with HIV. See the documentary "The Gift" and wikipedia article "Bugchasing and giftgiving" for details.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
there are "chasers"-believe it or not-that want to contract the virus...eric is on the money
therealflamelit 3 years ago
I woman I picked up on the street gave me unprotected oral sex for about 10 seconds and I stopped her after that point because I was uncomfortable with the whole experience. I did not ejaculate and there was no other contact between us. Needless to say I learned my lesson but what would you say are the chances she passed anything to me?
I am worrying so bad right now that I have trouble sleeping. I was wondering what the chances were of getting that disease through oral sex the way I had it?
CucciCadet 3 years ago
See our video "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One" for details about per-encounter risk for various sexual practices including receptive oral sex such as you experienced. Also see wikipedia's article on "HIV" for a table showing transmission risk estimates. Go to the doctor, tell them your history and risk factors, get tested for HIV, and follow their instructions for follow-up testing and anything else. Glad you learned the lessons: avoid paid, casual, and unprotected sex!
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
Thank you for that info and I did watch your videos. However, I am wondering how those percentages apply to my situation? Do those percentages mean prolonged exposure with the infected parter?
My main question would be that considering the exposure I had, which was 10 seconds at best, what would you say the chances are that I caught anything from her giving me oral sex for that short a time period?
CucciCadet 3 years ago
See our video "What's the Risk That I Have Contracted HIV?" As that video notes, in the end, you really can't precisely estimate the percentage risk that a particular individual has contracted HIV. Just get tested, use protection if you're sexually active until a doctor gives you the "all clear from that possible exposure," and don't worry too much in the meantime. Also, I'm unaware of any studies that quantify risk at the "per seconds of encounter" level.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
Thank you for posting some truth about this epidemic, I was getting sick to my stomach reading HIV is a secret government ploy for population control. Damn some people really need to be educated.
rinrin303 3 years ago 3
Look up the following on Google:
dead_denialists
It is a partial list of leading "HIV Denialists" who have since died of disease consistent with advanced AIDs.
Furthermore, look up the magazine Continuum, run by HIV-positive denialists, which shut down when its editors all died of AIDS-related causes.
Roflol. Get a clue.
The evidence that AIDS is caused by HIV is clear-cut, exhaustive and unambiguous, meeting the highest standards of science.
Denialists = murderers
conotoxin 3 years ago
Follow-up: it's worth noting that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control recommended in September 2006 that all patients age 13-64 years be tested for HIV when they visit the doctors office. So although mass screening of elementary school children still would not be cost effective, research has shown that in the U.S., doing an HIV test for every patient at a routine doctor's office visit (a visit they make for other reasons anyway) is in fact cost effective.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
is it true that mononeucleosis is connected to HIV...?
XxJupiterCrystalxX 3 years ago
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. I'm aware of no specific connection between mononucleosis and HIV. HIV/AIDS weakens your immune system, so people with HIV/AIDS might be more susceptible to mononucleosis just as they are to other infections, but that would not be an issue specific to mononucleosis.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
I guess this is why horror movies dealing with contamination/assimilation are the most scary
tynoobi 3 years ago
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nonikas87 3 years ago
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. Food preparation is not believed to pose a risk of HIV transmission for a variety of reasons including the fact that HIV breaks down quickly outside the body, cooking kills it, etc.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
Doctor, can you make video for kids?
lioncamprock 3 years ago
Boring
jesxe69 3 years ago
i wouldn't care if i got HIV AIDS. i know there is a cure 100%. there were 2 sports stars Magic Johnson a former LA Lakers b ball player and he has had HIV since 1992 and a boxer Tommy Morrison who got it in 1995. and they are both alive as healthy as everyone else. they were cured cuase they were straight and had alot of money. the gov has been keeping the cure a secret for years. cuase they don't want to help people. plus it is like 80% of the people who get AIDS are gay. and 20% are straight
jre25 3 years ago
The median time in the developed world between contracting HIV and developing clinical AIDS is 10 years without treatment. With monitoring, treatment, and good nutrition, sleep, and general health, you may be able to live a normal lifespan with HIV. So it's not surprising that wealth athletes who contract HIV can still look healthy today. Also, worldwide, the majority of people who contracted HIV did so through heterosexual sex.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
if you have HIV, you can cure it by having sex with a virgin <- ARE YOU FUCKIN CRAZY?
bboyjlee87 3 years ago 3
i have a question if SIV could be eradicated from what i understand is the source aids came from before mutating into aids. could aids be eradicated?
DAVEBEEE 3 years ago
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. I doubt it would be possible to eradicate SIV since you'd have to have a vaccine (we don't, AFAIK) and then vaccinate all the primates who are hosts for it (chimps, sooty mangabeys, etc.) to prevent further spread. HIV in humans could be eradicated if we completely stopped transmission until all people who are HIV+ die of natural causes. But that too would be nearly impossible to pull off right now. What we really need is a safe, effective vaccine for HIV.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
Does giving cunnilingus to a women has a high chance of contacting aids? I heard that the saliva can kill the virus? so how come there still is risk og contacting HIV? And also what about the risk of contacting HIV with an infected person using a latex condom?Is it 100 % safe?
naturalcouture 3 years ago
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. It is possible to contract HIV by performing cunnilingus. See our video "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One" for more info. If you use condoms correctly every time you have sex for every sexual act, it greatly reduces your risk of contracting or transmitting HIV but DOES NOT reduce the risk to zero. It's not a guarantee.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
what if poeple have sex and they dont have aids can they still get aids?
timissocool27 3 years ago
No, you have to get it from someone
KatanaGeldar 3 years ago
What do you make of all the conspiracies that it was purposly or maybe even accidently created by man? Millions of people believe that.
Also how did it travel from chimpanzees to humans? do you think it originated in Africa? How come the first known cases were homosexauls?
wisegflare 3 years ago
AIDS was first *noticed* in the medical community because U.S. doctors noticed multiple young men dying of pneumonia, which was quite unusual. The thing they seemed to have in common was being gay. But we've since found evidence for earlier cases of HIV in stored blood samples. Gay men in the U.S. then and now have a higher rate of HIV than the general population due to higher rates of unprotected anal sex (which is high risk) and some men with higher numbers of partners (also risky).
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
Is HIV virus has extra terrestrial origin?
pmf026 3 years ago
Your English looks extraterrestrial ...
jonamania17 3 years ago 9
Lol thats so rich,hahahah XDDDDDDD
MrJeekz 3 years ago
There's no reason to believe that HIV is of extraterrestrial origin. HIV-1 is genetically extremely similar to chimp SIV and HIV-2 is genetically extremely similar to sooty mangabey SIV. It's obvious that HIV jumped to humans from SIV in those two animals, likely due to blood exposure through hunting of them. See [Reeves JD, Doms RW. "Human immunodeficiency virus type 2." J Gen Virol. 2002 Jun;83(Pt 6):1253-65.]
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
what i want to know is where this deadly disease came from! there is quite a few theories out there. some of them plausable some of them ridiculous.
wisegflare 3 years ago
HIV-1 jumped to humans from the related SIV in chimpanzees. HIV-2 jumped to humans from the related SIV in the sooty mangabey monkey. [Reeves JD, Doms RW. "Human immunodeficiency virus type 2." J Gen Virol. 2002 Jun;83(Pt 6):1253-65.]
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
I would like to thank you for posting this video. There are some groups of people who believe that HIV/AIDS is a myth, and denial of the existence of this disease can only lead to more infections.
dcamer 3 years ago
she's trying to solution HIV by advising people to have safer sex rather than be more cautious and practicing monogamy, abstinence etc... HIV virus is 10,000 times smaller of a pore of latex condoms, u still can acquire HIV with all this concept of safe sex, this plague is solutioned by lifestyle change and prevention! as it is said "prevention is better than cure and because there is really no cure for HIV"
ouano1 3 years ago
The argument about latex pores is a red herring spread by people who want to raise doubts about the effectiveness of condoms. Water molecules are far smaller than the pores of latex condoms, but condoms still hold water. Oxygen molecules are far smaller than the pores, but latex condoms still hold air like a balloon. Why? Because the pores don't overlap. Condoms, if used correctly for every act, are a highly effective means of reducing your risk of contracting HIV.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
fuck hiv!
exterminatrix 3 years ago
Can a child be born with aids/HIV passed on from his/her parents?
DirtyTownSouth 3 years ago
From the mother, yes. It's called mother-to-child transmission. See our videos on Prevention Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV for details.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
thats how all the africans get aids
MattyH101 3 years ago
MTCT is not how ALL HIV+ Africans were infected. In Africa, there's a significant amount of heterosexual sexual transmission of HIV. However, it would be fair to say that MTCT is more common in Africa than in the developed world due to the higher rate of HIV among pregnant women and less access to antiretroviral medications that can prevent MTCT.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
yes
RakshaDaemon 3 years ago
O and what if a person with aids starts to bleed and leaves spots everywhere and you touch it not knowing that its blood but you go and wash your hands and start eating with your hands can you get aids?
KimmieX0X0 3 years ago
Don't be si fucking technical.A smart person washes their hands before eating.They deserve to die if they don't.
iARTillary 3 years ago
No, you can't. The HIV virus dies outside of the body. You wouldn't get AIDS from it.
DjBronz15 3 years ago
If a HIV+ person's blod comes in contact with an open wound of yours, only then can you contact HIV. Not if you eat it, or if it stays outside the body for long.
RakshaDaemon 3 years ago
This disease scares me so bad that i'm waiting to get married before i do anything. But my question is what if someone with aids starts bleeding everywhere and a janitor or something comes and cleans it up and you go in there and you touch the same spot in which the aids victim bleed from not knowing and not thinking you don't wash your hands and you start eating with your hands can you get aids?
KimmieX0X0 3 years ago
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. You are NOT at risk of contracting HIV from a surface where HIV+ blood was present but has already been cleaned up. HIV only remains viable outside the body (i.e. on a dry surface) for about 10 minutes anyway. PLUS as long as your skin is intact (no open cuts or sores) you're protected by the barrier of your skin.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
erm i got a question if you and your sexual partner have no history of hiv or dont have hiv at all is the risk of contracting STD still the same?
wwwgoi 3 years ago
This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. If you and your partner have never had an STD, you have a baseline (ordinary) risk of contracting a sexual disease if exposed to it. See our video "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One" for details. If a person has another STD (e.g. herpes or syphilis) it increases their risk of contracting other STDs.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
Your video is highly misleading in that it de-emphasizes the huge gulf of risk between different types of behaviors. Pretending that the likelihood of a lesbian spreading hiv to another is anywhere in the same statistical universe as that of homosexual males engaged in typical behavior, which involves hundreds of anonymous partners a year, is a horrible deceit -- and it is precisely this dishonest approach which has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of homosexual males. Shame on you.
7beers 3 years ago
Nonsense. This video does not "de-emphasize the huge gulf of risk between different types of behaviors." It makes specific reference to such differences where appropriate in context. This is a high-level introduction. It is not intended to and does not specify precise statistical risk differences in behaviors. For that, see "Some Ways HIV is Transmitted and the Risk of Each One." This video pretends nothing and all its statements are accurate. Your statements, by contrast, are false.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
Finally, I think your statement "homosexual males engaged in typical behavior, which involves hundreds of anonymous partners a year," reveals your true agenda. I don't know what the average # of partners per year for a gay male is in the U.S. or elsewhere (let alone anonymous partners per year), but I very much doubt that "hundreds of anonymous partners a year" is "typical behavior." It seems that you want to caricature male homosexual behavior and diminish the risks of heterosexual sex.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
Fact # 3: the chances of a lesbian infecting another lesbian is extremely rare.
7beers 3 years ago
True. That's why the video says "Although the risk of an HIV positive woman infecting another woman by having sex is lower, the risk is still not zero." No "huge disservice" there either.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
Fact # 2: it is far easier to contract aids from anal intercourse than from vaginal intercourse.
7beers 3 years ago
Actually, you need to be more precise. The estimated risks for unprotected sex are: receptive anal intercourse 50/10,000; receptive penile-vaginal intercourse 10/10,000; insertive anal intercourse 6.5/10,000; insertive penile-vaginal intercourse 5/10,000. [See wikipedia article on HIV for source citations.] So receptive vaginal intercourse is riskier for the woman than insertive anal intercourse is for the man. This correlates well with observed patterns in the heterosexual epidemic in Africa.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
Your video does a huge disservice on more than one point. Fact # 1. Contracting hiv from oral sex is miniscule compared to anal/vaginal sex.
7beers 3 years ago
You are correct that the risk of contracting HIV via oral sex is lower than anal/vaginal sex. That's why the video says "Although the risk of spreading HIV through oral sex may not be quite as high as through some other sexual practices such as vaginal or anal sex, the risk is still there." We are in agreement. No "huge disservice" there.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
"Not quite as high" is a completely inappropriate and misleading phrase to use when the chances of acquiring hiv through oral sex is thousands of times less than it is through anal sex.
7beers 3 years ago
Once again, you are making factually incorrect statements. The risk of acquiring HIV through oral sex is not "thousands of times less than it is through anal sex." Unprotected insertive anal sex is estimated to be about 13 times riskier than unprotected insertive fellatio. Read the wikipedia article on HIV and watch our video "Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and the Risk of Each One" before commenting further. There are better uses for my time than correcting your errors one comment at a time.
AIDSvideos 3 years ago
hey i went to the doctor and then i went to this other place where they take my blood and pee and here is the thing will they check for hiv and other stds or they are just checking for some other stuff
freestuff10 3 years ago
White people invented AID to destroy blacks.
jc2060 3 years ago
no, americans created aids to kill blacks. whites in canada are cool.
tanker4909 3 years ago
I believe you should know that white people get infected aswell
Nelloeren 3 years ago
true, but it started out as a race specific disease spread to wipe out all the black ppl. but its WAY to slow. people say they should use Ebola to lower population. it would wipe out 90% of the population instantly
JohnnyRyall91 3 years ago
I don't know if that's true, but if there is a guy who actually created the virus in order to infect someone, then this guy should be tortured for years before being brutally killed.
CaesarAugustus1987 3 years ago
STFU.
deathoftheendless 3 years ago
jc2060 - Spare us your hateful bigotry and lies. There are people here with serious questions who deserve serious answers.
conotoxin 3 years ago
its funny i have aids and i have fucked about 100 people and made them fucked for life lol. if ur wondering why i had sex with so many people is because i travel a lot lol
civicqvist 3 years ago