Some Ways You Can Contract HIV and Their Risks

This video discusses some ways you can contract HIV and the risk of each one. People often ask us which sexual practices have a relatively higher risk of HIV transmission and which have a relatively lower risk. This video discusses the estimated risk of HIV transmission for mother-to-child transmission, needle sharing, and for some common sexual practices including anal sex, vaginal sex, and oral sex on men and women. These statistics are just estimates based on the currently available scientific information. The risk of contracting HIV from a partner will also vary at different times during their infection. A person who has contracted HIV is most infectious shortly after they have acquired the virus, known as primary HIV infection. The cited figures here are estimated average risks, and risk of transmitting HIV can be increased or decreased by many other factors. For example, for sexual contact, if either or both partners have other sexually transmitted diseases, the risk of HIV transmission will be increased. Remember, the averages won't help you if you're the one who becomes infected. For example, unprotected insertive oral sex on a man may carry an estimated risk of 1 chance of HIV transmission in 20,000, but if you're the one who gets infected, HIV transmission is still 100% for you. These statistics are not a license to engage in unprotected sex. Rather, they will hopefully help people to realize that all of the sexual practices we've listed carry some risk of HIV transmission, so it's vital if you're sexually active to always practice safer sex techniques such as the use of condoms. For more information, visit http://www.GlobalLifeworks.org/ and http://www.AIDSvideos.org/. This video is freely downloadable from http://www.archive.org/details/SomeWaysYouCanContractHivAndTheRiskOfEachOne . Disabled accessibility: The transcript for this and many other AIDSvideos.org videos can be downloaded from http://aidsvideos.org/translate.shtml . [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate this video into another language! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to learn how you can help!!! © Copyright 2008-2011 Global Lifeworks. All rights reserved. This work is licensed to be used for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.]

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• HIV
• AIDS
• anal
• oral
• vaginal
• sex
• mother-to-child
• transmission
• needle
• sharing
• condom
• barebacking
• unprotected
• anonymous

[sobr32xiswcp]

somebody can tell me what did she say about give oral sex to a woman? i dont know much english.. but if somebody write it yeah i easy get it.

[AIDSvideos]

@sobr32xiswcp: It is believed to be possible for a person to contract HIV by performing oral sex ("going down") on a woman, although the odds are lower than many other sexual practices.

[frankayyyyyy]

Do the stats change if the person who was infected, was newly infected?

[AIDSvideos]

@frankayyyyyy: This is Eric. Excellent question. Absolutely yes. As the video notes, "The risk of contracting HIV from a partner will also vary at different times during their infection. A person who has contracted HIV is most likely to transmit HIV soon after they have acquired the virus, which is known as the period of primary HIV infection." Their viral load is highest in bodily fluids then because the immune system hasn't yet mounted an effective defense against HIV.

[AIDSvideos]

@AIDSvideos: CDC estimates 1/3 of sexual transmissions of HIV happen during primary HIV infection. This is one reason it's so important to get tested for HIV promptly if you think you might have been exposed. You can find out if you're HIV+ and, if you are, make choices that will reduce your risk of transmitting HIV to others during this period of highest risk of transmission and thereafter.

[bluetortilla]

What are your chances of being in a fatal car crash on the highway? Of being murdered in Oakland at midnight? Of having a fatal heart attack at age 54? We all die of something sooner or later.

[AIDSvideos]

@bluetortilla: It's true that all people die sooner or later. That's not an argument for making decisions that increase your risk of contracting an incurable virus such as HIV that can both make you very sick AND force you to take medication for the rest of your life AND cause you to die sooner that you otherwise would have.

[OCButterfly99]

Thank you so much for your video. I also think people should relearn the proper use of condoms.VERY important. PLUS its sexy.

[SnugOFP]

This is a good video. Deserves more viewers. All the estimates are current and based on fact unlike a lot of other sources. I tend to get really afraid when i have exposures and I check out this video every now and then just to refresh my memory on the numbers. I really do wish they did more studies on oral sex on a woman though. That is a very very common activity and a quite desriable one for many men and women and there is no hard numbers to refer to at all. :(

[MrDoubtfulguest]

@guforules Just get tested. HIV doesn't remain active out of the body for very long, but you sound like a worrier. Get tested, and stop worrying. (If you actually contracted HIV in the manner you describe, and you could prove it, your case would make medical history)

Or perhaps you are just joking.

[AIDSvideos]

@bluetortilla: The sources are cited right in the video. Or just go to the cited wikipedia article, which nicely organizes the risk estimates with source citations for each estimate.