if aids affected person give lip to lip kiss spread aids?
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Since the beginning of the epidemic, three main transmission routes of HIV have been identified:\n\nSexual route. The majority of HIV infections have been, and still are, acquired through unprotected sexual relations. Sexual transmission occurs when there is contact between sexual secretions of one partner with the rectal, genital or mouth mucous membranes of another. \nBlood or blood product route. This transmission route is particularly important for intravenous drug users, hemophiliacs and recipients of blood transfusions and blood products. Health care workers (nurses, laboratory workers, doctors etc) are also concerned, although more rarely. Also concerned by this route are people who give and receive tattoos and piercings. \nMother-to-child route (vertical transmission). The transmission of the virus from the mother to the child can occur in utero during the last weeks of pregnancy and at childbirth. Breast feeding also presents a risk of infection for the baby. In the absence of treatment, the transmission rate between the mother and child was 20%. However, where treatment is available, combined with the availability of Cesarian section, this has been reduced to 1%. \nHIV has been found in the saliva, tears and urine of infected individuals, but due to the low concentration of virus in these biological liquids, the risk is considered to be negligible.
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Highly unlikely. HIV cannot be transmitted through saliva. The toothbrush would have to be contaminated with blood of the infected and used right away by someone with a cut or bleeding gums. Although it is definitely NOT worth the risk.
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Myth & Reality of HIV AIDS (Myth is nothing but perception)\n\nMYTH: HIV or AIDS can be cured.\n\nREALITY: To date, there is no cure for HIV or AIDS and there are no vaccines to prevent HIV infection.\n\nMYTH: HIV/AIDS is a gay disease.\n\nREALITY: Anyone is susceptible to HIV/AIDS, regardless of their sexual orientation. Everyone is potentially at risk of getting HIV if they share needles or practice unsafe sex. Worldwide, HIV is spread most often through heterosexual contact.\n\nMYTH: You can get HIV from breathing the air around an HIV-infected person or from hugging or holding hands with an HIV-infected person.\n\nREALITY: HIV cannot be transmitted through:\n• toilet seats or door-knob handles\n• touching, hugging, holding hands, or cheek kissing with an HIV-infected person.\n• sharing eating utensils with an HIV-infected person.\n• mosquito bites.\nHIV is transmitted through contact with an HIV-positive person’s infected body fluids, such as semen, pre-ejaculate fluid, vaginal fluids, blood, or breast milk. HIV can also be transmitted through needles used for injecting drugs, tattooing or body piercing.\n\nMYTH: I can get HIV by sharing exercise equipment or playing sports with an HIV-positive person.\n\nREALITY: Contact with sweat or tears has never been shown to result in transmission of HIV.\n\nMYTH: You can get HIV by kissing an HIV-infected person.\n\nREALITY: Casual contact through closed-mouth or “social” kissing is not a risk for transmission of HIV. There is a theoretical potential for contact with blood during “French” kissing or open-mouthed kissing, but no cases have been attributed to any kind of kissing.\n\nMYTH: You cannot get HIV if you are using birth control methods like diaphragms, cervical caps, sponges, spermicides, DepoProvera, Norplant, or the Pill.\n\nREALITY: These birth control methods do not prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) such as HIV. They only aim to prevent pregnancy. The surest way to prevent both pregnancy and an STD infections is through abstinence. One way people who are sexually active may prevent pregnancy and STD infection is to use a condom in combination with another form of birth control, such as a diaphragm, cervical cap, sponge, spermicide, DepoProvera, Norplant, or the Pill. Birth control products containing the spermicide nonoxynol-9 (found in most contraceptive creams, gels, suppositories, foams, films and sponges) help to prevent pregnancy but may increase the risk of HIV.\n\nMYTH: I can’t have more than one sexually transmitted disease (STD) at a time.\n\nREALITY: A person can be infected with more than one STD. A person with an untreated STD may also be 6-10 times more likely to pass on or acquire HIV during sex. Risk for infection increases 10 to 300-fold in the presence of a genital ulcer, such as occurs in syphilis or genital herpes.\n\nMYTH: There is so such thing as safer sex.\n\nREALITY: Safer sex is sexual activity without penetration, or sex with a latex condom or a latex barrier (in the case of oral sex). Although safer sex can substantially reduce the sexual transmission of an STD like HIV, sexual abstinence is the surest way to prevent the sexual transmission of an STD, including HIV.\n\nMYTH: Since I only have oral sex, I’m not at risk for HIV/AIDS.\n\nREALITY: While oral sex is of lower risk than other forms of sex, you can get HIV by having oral sex with a man or a woman. It is important to use a latex barrier during oral, vaginal, or anal sex.\n\nMYTH: I would know if a loved one or I had HIV.\n\nREALITY: A person with HIV may not show any symptoms for many years. Since HIV affects each person differently, many people with HIV can look and feel healthy for years. The only sure way to know is to get tested.\n\nMYTH: Getting tested for HIV is pointless.\n\nREALITY: Knowing if you are HIV-positive will allow you to seek early treatment that can help you stay healthy longer and enable you not to pass on the vir
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If there was any swapping of bodily fluids, perhaps.\nIf the skin was broken on the HIV negative person and not the HIV positive person, there is a good change transmission did not occur.\n\nIf the HIV negative person is worried, s/he can always get tested. Many cities offer free testing either through Planned Parenthood or AIDS outreach organizations
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Possibly. If the person giving you a blow job has a small cut or sore in their mouth, and you have a cut or sore on your penis then you can get HIV, not AIDS. AIDS develops from contracting HIV. HIV can only be spread from blood to blood contact. It's always best to protect yourself.
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Open mouth kissing with a person who is HIV+ with open sores is not a 100% safe activity as HIV is transmitted by blood, semen and vaginal fluids. Although it is unlikely that you would get HIV this way, you do not want to take the risk. HIV does not live well in saliva, but blood sometimes found in saliva contains the virus when the person is infected. Many times people have small cuts and scrapes in their mouth that they are not even aware of and the possibility exists that the infected person's blood from the sores could enter the uninfected person's body through these cuts. If enough blood enters the person's body through a cut or scrape, the person could become infected with HIV. This is very unlikely and there are no such documented cases of HIV being transmitted this way.\n\nIt's not a good idea to kiss anyone that has a sore in his or her mouth. A sore in the mouth is a sign of a virus, infection or a cold. You do not want to expose yourself to any illnesses. Being sick is no fun!\n\nIf you or your partner have any concerns about your sexual health or sexually transmitted diseases and live in Northern New Jersey, please contact the Young/Adult Center for Health at (973) 971.5199. If you live outside of Northern New Jersey, please call your local teen health center. These centers can see you confidentially and on a reduced cost or no cost basis.\n\nTry to keep your self healthy!
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There's a very, very, VERY slim chance, but given certain circumstances, yes you can. For example, say you had a cut in your mouth, or even tiny, microscopic cuts in between your gums such as from flossing, and the person you are kissing is infected with HIV and he or she too has a cut or miscroscopic cuts from flossing and some of the infected fluid gets into your blood stream through your cut, then yes, technically you can get HIV, but this is seriously very rare.
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HIv/Aids is a puzzle in our society, saliva transfer is highly unlikey but does exsist. Any open sores or cuts maybe you bit your jawl there is a possiblity. Herpes YES. Oral sex is being offered up as a safe way to avoid the issues of PVI ( penile vaginal intercourse) but that is not the case. While you may likely not get AIDS or HIV you will probably get Herpes or other Viruses. Use a dental dam or other protective products, have yourself and partner tested regularly for STD's. Your best resource is your doctor.
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It's highly unlikely that the virus would be spread this way, though I wouldn't say absolutely impossible.\n\nThe virus would have to survive contact with the acidic pinapple and survive on the pinapple for however long it took the boy to eat it. Once in the boy's mouth it would have to remain alive until it can find a way into the blood stream. \n\nThere is ONE documented case of the virus being transmitted via a deep, mouth to mouth kiss. It should be noted that the infector and infectee both has gum disease, and had very recently brushed their teeth, causing bleeding and thus passage ways into the blood stream to open up.\n\nThere are many cases where the path of infection was not dicernable. This isn't to say it occured in a not so unusual way, such as unprotected sex, but people have a tendancy to withhold things from doctors. I think it's unlikely that they would persue investigations as far as suspecting a pinapple vendor, so this is probably an urban legend.\n\nHere is a document citing unusual, but rare, suspected routs of transmission of HIV.
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It's a long shot, but yes, it is possible.  If you have breaks or tears in your skin, and she has open sores in her mouth, the virus can be transmitted.
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Studies have actually shown that kissing helps to boost the immune system. So go for it!  There are few diseases that can be realistically passed from a kiss, and none serious enough to really be of much concern.\n-Duo
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yes, even by oral kissing\n\nAIDS-related virus spreads through kissing - Herpes\nDANIEL Q. HANEY / AP 9nov00\n\nBOSTON -- A form of the herpes virus that causes an AIDS-related skin cancer appears to spread through kissing.\n\nHerpes virus 8 was discovered six years ago and causes a skin cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma. In the United States, the cancer occurs almost exclusively in people with AIDS.\n\nSome had suspected that the virus was transmitted through sexual intercourse, but the new research from the University of Washington, reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, contradicts that idea.\n\nDr. John Pauk and others tested 39 gay men who were infected with the virus but did not have Kaposi's sarcoma. They found the virus in 30 percent of their saliva samples and mouth swabs, compared with 1 percent of anal and genital samples. When present, the virus levels were also much higher in saliva than in semen.\n\n``The important thing is it suggests that oral-oral contact plays some role in transmission, although more study is needed to confirm that,'' said Pauk.\n\nThe study also found that homosexual men who engaged in ``deep kissing'' -- kissing that involves a lot of contact with saliva -- appeared to be at substantially higher risk of catching the virus.\n\nKaposi's sarcoma causes purple skin blotches and can also attack the internal organs. Like many other diseases that kill people with AIDS, it usually affects those with weakened immune systems. The virus alone rarely causes sickness among people with normal disease defenses.\n\nThe research ``definitely has public health implications for people infected with HIV,'' said Dr. Ronald O. Valdiserri of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, he said there was not enough data to recommend that people with HIV avoid deep kissing.\n\nThirty percent to 50 percent of HIV-infected people who catch herpes virus 8 will eventually get Kaposi's sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma has been present for centuries in Southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. But it was rare in the United States until the start of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s.\n\nExperts say the virus is still largely confined to homosexuals in the United States, and that is why kissing has not yet spread herpes virus 8 among heterosexuals.\n\nDr. Anna Wald, another University of Washington researcher, noted that herpes virus 8 is closely related to the common Epstein Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis, long known as the kissing disease.\n\n``Teen-agers tend to get this when they start kissing,'' she said. ``The reason they get Epstein Bar virus and not herpes virus 8 is that most people have Epstein Bar virus, but relatively few have herpes virus 8.''\n\nDr. Patrick S. Moore of Columbia University, who discovered the virus, said exposure to saliva may explain the high rate of infection in parts of Africa, where more than 70 percent of people may carry herpes virus 8.\n\nOther forms of the herpes virus cause chicken pox, shingles, cold sores and genital herpes.
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The chance of getting HIV from this is so unlikely it's practically impossible. Although there can be some HIV in saliva, it has to get into your bloodstream to infect you.
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There are conflicting views on the percentage of people who have contracted aids via oral sex. \n\nHaving any kind of sexual relations with someone who is infected with the disease definitely increases the liklihood of contracting it.\n\nUnfortunately, Yahoo restricts what can be said about certain topics and so I can't go in to too much detail. However, the sites listed below offer good guidelines and advice. \n\nThe bottomline, it is better to be safe than sorry, so use protection, especially if you don't know much about your partner's sexual history.
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Yes - the release of ANY bodily fluid is enough to transmit the AIDS virus. Please take this very seriously if you don't want to get the disease. Look into methods of protection for oral sex - dental dams, using a condom -
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Yes. Any exchange of bodily fluids CAN result in the transmission of HIV or AIDS, although the risk is smaller when it is oral. \n\n"HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts in blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, saliva, and tears. "\n- http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/transmission.htm\n\n"The risk of HIV transmission from an infected partner through oral sex is much smaller than the risk of HIV transmission from anal or vaginal sex. Because of this, measuring the exact risk of HIV transmission as a result of oral sex is very difficult."\n-http://www.avert.org/orlsx.htm#q3
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Can I get HIV from oral sex? \nYes, it is possible for either partner to become infected with HIV through performing or receiving oral sex. There have been a few cases of HIV transmission from performing oral sex on a person infected with HIV. While no one knows exactly what the degree of risk is, evidence suggests that the risk is less than that of unprotected anal or vaginal sex. \n\nIf the person performing oral sex has HIV, blood from their mouth may enter the body of the person receiving oral sex through \n\nthe lining of the urethra (the opening at the tip of the penis); \nthe lining of the vagina or cervix; \nthe lining of the anus; or \ndirectly into the body through small cuts or open sores. \nIf the person receiving oral sex has HIV, their blood, semen (cum), pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum), or vaginal fluid may contain the virus. Cells lining the mouth of the person performing oral sex may allow HIV to enter their body. \n\nThe risk of HIV transmission increases \n\nif the person performing oral sex has cuts or sores around or in their mouth or throat; \nif the person receiving oral sex ejaculates in the mouth of the person performing oral sex; or \nif the person receiving oral sex has another sexually transmitted disease (STD). \nNot having (abstaining from) sex is the most effective way to avoid HIV. \n\nIf you choose to perform oral sex, and your partner is male, \n\nuse a latex condom on the penis; or \nif you or your partner is allergic to latex, plastic (polyurethane) condoms can be used. \nStudies have shown that latex condoms are very effective, though not perfect, in preventing HIV transmission when used correctly and consistently. If either partner is allergic to latex, plastic (polyurethane) condoms for either the male or female can be used. For more information about latex condoms, see "Male Latex Condoms and Sexually Transmitted Diseases." \n\nIf you choose to have oral sex, and your partner is female, \n\nuse a latex barrier (such as a natural rubber latex sheet, a dental dam or a cut-open condom that makes a square) between your mouth and the vagina. A latex barrier such as a dental dam reduces the risk of blood or vaginal fluids entering your mouth. Plastic food wrap also can be used as a barrier. \nIf you choose to perform oral sex with either a male or female partner and this sex includes oral contact with your partners anus (analingus or rimming), \n\nuse a latex barrier (such as a natural rubber latex sheet, a dental dam or a cut-open condom that makes a square) between your mouth and the anus. Plastic food wrap also can be used as a barrier. \nIf you choose to share sex toys with your partner, such as dildos or vibrators, \n\neach partner should use a new condom on the sex toy; and \nbe sure to clean sex toys between each use. \nIf you would like more information or have personal concerns, call CDC-INFO 24 Hours/Day at 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636), 1-888-232-6348 (TTY), in English, en Espaٌol. \n\nBut on the other hand reports say it is very minimal:\nhttp://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1156