Recent science on HIV transmission rates
I just saw a recent report about a meta-study on HIV transmission rates that I thought was worth sharing:
"As expected, sexual exposure risks ranged from too low to quantify for oral sex, to 138 per 10,000 for receptive anal sex. Falling in between were insertive anal sex (11 per 10,000), receptive vaginal sex (8 per 10,000), and insertive vaginal sex (4 per 10,000).
Over ten years, using no prevention measures at all, the risk of transmission via vaginal sex for a heterosexual couple with an HIV-positive woman was estimated to be 44%. For gay male couples, the estimated ten-year risk reached nearly 100%. A substantial cumulative risk remained for couples using any single prevention strategy, the researchers concluded.
Based on risk reduction levels seen in prior studies, as described above, the researchers calculated that for a heterosexual couple using only condoms for vaginal sex, the transmission risk over ten years was 11%."
Here is the full article: http://betablog.org/studies-shed ... isk-and-prevention/
Essentially, what it says (that is most important to us) is that while HIV transmission from an infected-female to a male via standard vagina intercourse is extrremely low (4 per 10,000) (as we already knew). BUT: over time, the numbers creep up. The iikelihood of a man becoming infected by an infected female spouse thru normal (non-anal) intercourse rises to over 40% without condom use after 10 years. And even as high as 11% WITH regular condom use.
So, what this tells me: If you regularly engage in unprotected sex, even if you practice only vagina intercourse, the risks of eventually contracting HIV remain significant.
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