HIV/AIDS: Preventing Sexual Transmission of HIV

Becky Kuhn, M.D., discusses how to avoid contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, through sexual contact. This video is freely downloadable from http://www.archive.org/details/aidsvideos_prevent_sex_transmit . Visit http://www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http://AIDSvideos.org to learn more. 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 our videos into other languages! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to to learn how you can help!!! © Copyright 2007-2011 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
• sexual
• transmission
• latex
• condom
• sex
• oral
• anal
• vaginal
• dental
• dam

[ilovepdub]

wonder is there a way to get someone elses sexual fluids out of you

[AIDSvideos]

@ilovepdub: This is Eric; I'm not a doctor. The answer is "not with any effectiveness." Once those fluids have contacted your mucous membranes, you may have contracted an STD right at that moment, even if you then try to remove the fluids. And you may become pregnant, even if you try to "wash out" the semen.

If you choose to be sexually active, use barrier methods to reduce your risks.

Go to our web site and click "FAQ" and "Myths" for more.

[skydayer]

Seriously who cant buy a pack of condoms really are there people who cant spare 2 - 5 dollars?

[AIDSvideos]

@skydayer: Unfortunately, yes. Like people in the world who live on less than $1 a day. "[N]ew poverty estimates released in August 2008 show that about 1.4 billion people in the developing world (one in four) were living on less than $1.25 a day in 2005, down from 1.9 billion (one in two) in 1981." [World Bank, "What is poverty?" Accessed 2 June 2010.]

[bestman132ify]

ILL NEVER HAVE HIV

[ilovepdub]

i believe its true that if your not your partners only one. then u have had sex with all thier partners too cuz of the sexual fluids.. but the way i see it . it cant be that much cuz if they are not affected u wont be either. but i jus say this . the only person you havin sex wit is the one u layin down wit.

[AIDSvideos]

(5) We are not saying, and the video does not say, that abstinence is a panacea. But it is one useful tool in our full quiver of arrows (including condoms, fidelity, testing, disclosure of status, access to treatment, etc.) against HIV.

[AIDSvideos]

(4) Abstaining until marriage/life partnership is NOT exactly the same thing as temporary abstinence. "Temporary abstinence" assumes it is time-limited and a person will resume sex later, increasing risk again. If both partners are HIV- and abstain from sex until marriage and do not contract HIV by other means like needle sharing and are faithful in marriage thereafter, they will not contract HIV through sex, period. (Assuming neither one is raped, of course.)

[AIDSvideos]

(2) It's not correct that people who are too poor to get condoms will necessarily have no access to free HIV testing. There are places like Africa where even though free condom distribution is not in place, free access to HIV testing is. (3) Abstinence from sex always eliminates your risk of contracting HIV via sex during the period you successfully abstain. (If you're raped, of course, you're at risk through sex that way.) Whether temporary or until marriage, it's a useful approach.

[AIDSvideos]

People should get tested for HIV before they get married, should disclose their status, and should disclose if they choose to have sex outside of the marriage or share needles thereafter. You are correct however that if your spouse is not faithful and doesn't disclose this, your risk of contracting HIV in marital sex might be similar to that of sex with a stranger. And indeed, a husband's infidelity or drug use are leading risk factors for HIV among married women.