can a person be infected by kissing a HIV positive mate?

Answer 1

NO (unless both of your mouth are bleeding)...

Answer 2

A small trace is in the saliva but not likely enough to infect someone. Also you would have to be careful because blood from a sore or bleeding gums even biting your tongue. This could raise the risk when kissing someone hiv positive.

Answer 3

In order for a person to catch AIDS (HIV infection), the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) must travel from the inside of one person to the inside of another person, arriving with its RNA strand(s) intact. Then the virus, or its intact RNA strand(s) must get into the new host's bloodstream and then successfully find and enter a T-cell. Once inside a host cell, HIV can prepare for replication. After replication, replica viruses infects other host cells, probably attaching to new host cells when the infected host cell collides with other cells in the bloodstream.

Generally, more than one virus enters the body at one time. More likely, a person encounters dozens, hundreds, or thousands of viruses (or virus-infected cells) during exposure. The more viruses present, the better the chance of one or more viruses succeeding in finding a host cell and replicating.

Viruses are not able to enter the body through intact skin. Therefore viruses must enter the body through an open wound(s) or one of a number of possible body openings. Most of these body openings contain mucous membranes. Mucous membranes are thin tissues which protect many openings and passages in the human body. These membranes secrete mucus. Which contains anti-germ chemicals and keeps the surrounding tissues moist. There are mucous membranes in the mouth, inside the eyelids, in the nose and air passages leading to the lungs, in the stomach, along the digestive tract, in the vagina, in the anus, and inside the "eye" of the penis. Many viruses, if placed on the surface of a mucous membrane, can travel through the membrane and enter the tiny blood vessels inside.

The mucous membranes of the eyes and mouth are often doorways into our bodies for highly infectious viruses such as the flu. You can catch the flu from a person in the following manner: the person coughs in his or her hand, you shake hands soon afterward, and then your virus-carrying hand touches your eye or mouth.

The flu is highly infectious because the flu virus lives in the lungs, throat, and sinuses. Therefore, a high concentration of flu viruses is present in the sputum of an infected person. (Sputum is the substance expelled by coughing or by clearing the throat. Concentration is the number of viruses per unit of volume.) Coughing forces many viruses out of the lungs and into the air or onto the sick person' s hand or handkerchief. The flu virus easily crosses the mucous membrane.

The danger with AIDS is very different. With AIDS, the major infection sites are the bloodstream and the central nervous system. While HIV-carrying macrophages (roving white blood cells that engulf invaders, but are susceptible to HIV infection) are found in the connective tissues of the lung and in oral and mucous membranes, the number of viruses present does not seem great. Thus, HIV is present in low concentrations, if at all, in saliva and sputum. So coughing should not expel a large quantity of HIV, if any. Apparently, HIV cannot cross the mucous membrane very easily, and large concentrations of HIV are probably necessary.

Answer 4

HIV is not transmitted except through:
1-blood contaminated with the virus
2-syringes or needles contaminated with the virus
3-sexual intercourse with an infected partner
4-from a carrier mother to her child during pregnancy or delivery

Answer 5

HIV are transmitted only by direct contact by blood. So if you or your partner have cuts on your mouth then the chance of infection is high.

But normally it shouldn't be the case though.

Answer 6

It is possible since HIV is spread through bodily fluids. Saliva is a bodily fluid. You should get an HIV test just to be sure.

Answer 7

unless you have a open scar or something of that matter that the only way look

By having sex with an infected partner. The virus can enter the body through the lining of the vagina, vulva, penis, rectum, or mouth during sex.
Through contact with infected blood. Before blood was screened for evidence of HIV infection and before heat-treating techniques were introduced to destroy HIV in blood products, such as factor 8 and albumin, HIV was transmitted through transfusions of contaminated blood or blood components. Today, because of blood screening and heat treatment of blood derivatives, the risk of getting HIV from such transfusions is extremely small.
By sharing needles or syringes (such as during injection drug use), which can be contaminated with very small quantities of blood from someone infected with the virus. It is rare, however, for a patient to give HIV to a health care worker or vice-versa by accidental sticks with contaminated needles or other medical instruments.
During pregnancy or birth. Approximately one-quarter to one-third of all untreated pregnant women infected with HIV will pass the infection to their babies. HIV also can be spread to babies through the breast milk of mothers infected with the virus. If the mother takes the drug AZT during pregnancy, she can significantly reduce the chances that her baby will be infected with HIV. If doctors treat mothers with AZT and deliver their babies by cesarean section, the chances of the baby being infected can be reduced to a rate of one percent.
Having a sexually transmitted disease such as syphilis, genital herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhea, or bacterial vaginosis, which appears to make people more susceptible to and at higher risk for acquiring HIV infection during sex with infected partners.

Answer 8

NO. Unless you are kissing each other with a mouth full of used needles.

Answer 9

No. It's only transmitted through sex and blood.

Answer 10

It's possible,
if he/she has a cut in their mouth,
and you do too,
and you are 'swapping spit'
then yes, it's possible