Hiv transmission and oral sex

Whether you are thinking about having oral sex for the first time or just want some more information — read on for tips on how to have oral sex safely and pleasurably, and answers to some of the most common questions. The risk of HIV transmission through oral sex is even lower if the HIV-negative partner is taking medicine to prevent HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP or the HIV-positive partner is taking medicine to treat HIV antiretroviral therapy or ART and is virally suppressed. It is mainly because the risk from oral sex is believed to be so much lower that this is a risk people are happy to take. Terrence Higgins Trust 'Oral sex and HIV'. There are a few documented cases where it appears that HIV was transmitted orally and those cases are attributed to ejaculation into the mouth. It's a relatively rare event. But the truth is that different things work for different people.

We believe that San Francisco can be the first U. Ask them to tell you what feels nice and let them know when you are enjoying something. So you just have to know that if you're engaging in those practices, there are ways to use condoms that might make it safer but there are occasions in which transmission does occur. This appears to happen because there is an increased concentration of HIV in the semen and genital fluids of HIV-positive people who also are infected with another STD.