December 15 2016
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It is far less common, but possible, to transmit HIV through oral sex,
especially if you are a man and you ejaculate into someone else’s mouth.
If you have HIV and your partner performs fellatio on you but you do
not ejaculate in that person’s mouth, you have an extremely low chance
of passing HIV to them. HIV transmission through “fellatio without
ejaculation can happen, but it is exceedingly rare,” says Thomas Coates,
Ph.D., a professor of medicine and director of the University of
California, San Francisco, AIDS Research Institute and the Center for
AIDS Prevention Studies. “It’s not ‘no risk,’ but it’s relatively low
risk.” When ejaculation occurs during fellatio, the risk of HIV
transmission rises; researchers debate what the rate of transmission is
but most estimates are between 1 and 10 percent. If you are a woman,
having someone perform cunnilingus on you is extremely low risk as well,
as long as you are not menstruating.
Read more articles from PLUS, here.
I am providing a link to my personal story about how I got HIV through oral sex:
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