What are the chances of getting HIV if you makeout with someone who is HIV+?

Question

Also if you don't know if someone is HIV+ are there any signs at all? because if you kissed a random person, what are the chances of them being HIV+?

Answer 1

If you kiss someone who is HIV+, the chances of becoming infected are remote, the + person would have to be bleeding orally to infect you.

I think the chances of becoming infected from intercourse are high especially if you're female. Unless an intact condom was used then that would be okay.

I'm a nurse and know in the medical profession people become infected from needle stick injuries, it obviously only takes a minute amount of blood.

Answer 2

The fact that it is possible, should pretty much end the percentage argument. A 1% chance or 50-50, the chance is still there, and risking the potential of becoming infected with AIDS is something most normal people would avoid if they could. Best advice is if you are not HIV positive, don't engage in behavior that could possibly infect you. If you have an HIV positive "friend", don't swap bodily fluids of any kind. Not blood, sweat, tears, or any other kind of fluid.

Unfortunately odds are good there will be no outward signs of a HIV positive carrier, so risk free promiscuity is a thing of the past in the modern world.

Answer 3

The myth: “HIV can be spread through tears, sweat, mosquitoes, pools or casual contact.”

The reality: HIV can only be transmitted through infected blood, semen, vaginal fluids and breast milk. The most common ways for HIV to be transmitted are through unprotected sexual contact and/or sharing needles with an HIV+ person. HIV can also be passed from mother to baby.



The following “bodily fluids” are NOT infectious:


Tears
Sweat
Saliva
Urine
Feces
Casual contact is not considered risky because it does not include contact with blood or other infectious body fluids. Examples of casual contact include: social kissing, public venues (pools, theaters, bathrooms), sharing drinks or eating utensils, etc. Insect bites do not transmit HIV

more info on aids-http://www.thewellproject.org/en_US/

Answer 4

1)all, 100%
2)no, maybe after 5-20 years
3)little, why take the risk?

Answer 5

HIV is gonna get us all flippin killed

Answer 6

Study Shows Odds of Getting HIV Infection/Risk-reducing steps not as effective; Just how risky is risky sex in the era of AIDS?



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The San Francisco Department of Public Health has just released a study that calculates the odds -- and to those who understand the arcane numbers, the results are surprising and troubling.
Showing for the first time the mathematical risk of HIV infection in a variety of circumstances, the study of 1,583 men suggests that AIDS remains a difficult disease to contract but that steps taken by some men to lower their risk are not as effective as some have hoped.

"It is really important for people to have information in making decisions about their sexual risks," said Susan Buchbinder, an epidemiologist with the city health department and senior author of the report.

Each time an uninfected man engages in unprotected receptive anal intercourse with an HIV-positive partner, for example, chances are 1 in 120 that he will become infected with the AIDS virus.

Oral sex, often seen as a safe alternative to anal sex in the gay community, poses a small but significant risk of infection. Each contact poses about 1-in-2,500 chance that an exchange of semen from an HIV-infected partner will transmit the disease. Those odds are not as favorable as commonly thought.

"We're not talking thousands of times less risky. We're talking about 10 times less risky," said Buchbinder.

But the study also hints that even disciplined use of a condom may offer less protection than previously thought. Among the 49 men in the study group who became infected, only half reported having unprotected sex with a partner who was either HIV positive or not known to be uninfected. That suggests that half of those infected were practicing some form of "safer" sex -- use of a condom or oral sex.

Most provocative was a preliminary finding that among men who had receptive anal intercourse with an HIV-infected partner those who used condoms were only one-third less likely to contract the virus than those who used no condoms at all.

"The data tell us that, when you have receptive anal intercourse, you are at greater risk, regardless of whether you reported using a condom," said Buchbinder.

But the epidemiologist cautioned that her computer models did not have enough statistical power to draw conclusions about the safety of condom use. The data could be skewed by subjects who reported using a condom but in fact did not, or by men whose condoms broke or slipped off without their knowing it. "It is something that definitely needs confirmation," she said.

AIDS prevention experts said the study is useful and supports much of what they had always believed.

"We've always said that oral sex is lower risk but not risk-free," said Dan Wohlfeiler, a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health.

In a previous role as director of education programs for the Stop AIDS Project in San Francisco, Wohlfeiler said, the single question asked most of him was what are the odds of transmission in oral sex.

"The odds may be 1 in 2,000," said Wohlfeiler, "but if you have 10,000 going on at any one time, someone is going to draw that unlucky card." The study makes clear that there are varying levels of risk of HIV infection, depending on the type of sexual acts performed, the health status of the partner, and the use of condoms.

Buchbinder points out that the study has implications for doctors making decisions about whether to prescribe a short course of antiviral drugs to men who had unsafe sex with partner they did not know -- a preventive step sometimes compared to the "morning-after pill."

The study found that the chances of a man becoming infected from a single incident of unsafe sex with a partner who was not known to be HIV-negative was 1 in 370 -- comparable to the risk of becoming infected by an accidental needle stick from an HIV-infected patient.

Current practice is to place a health care worker stuck by such a needle on the same preventive antiviral therapy. If the risks are similar, Buchbinder reasons, then doctors should not hesitate to prescribe the same medicines to men who fear they have been infected by a partner of unknown HIV-status.

The study also found that the risk of HIV infection is lower among men who practice insertive anal intercourse. The risk of infection for a man who practices unprotected insertive anal sex on an HIV-infected partner is 1 in 1,666 per contact.

Earlier studies have found that women who have unprotected vaginal intercourse with an HIV-infected partner run a risk of infection of between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 2,000 each time they have sex.

Buchbinder stressed that the findings cannot be applied as a guide for each individual -- rather they show how a group of individuals might fare on average. In fact, the study found that individual infection rates varied widely -- some subjects were infected by as few as one or two risky encounters, while others remained uninfected after hundreds of high- risk sex acts.

And while the lower-risk practices of unprotected sex -- exchange of semen in oral sex, or insertive anal intercourse -- offer a low risk of infection, Buchbinder warned the danger remains real. "If you do it often enough, you are increasing your risk," she said.
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Answer 7

chances are very very high.Please please get yourself to your g.p. to get a blood test.there are no signs.HIV IS PASSED BY BODILY FLUIDS.BLOOD ,SEMEN,SALIVA