2007-03-29 12:57:31 · 7 answers · asked by lonely heart 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
Depends on the disease. Skin contact-transmissible diseases like herpes and genital warts (HPV) cannot be fully prevented with condom use because the condom cannot cover all the surface area where the virus can be shed. Still, using a condom offers some protection, and it is much better than no protection.
However, fluid-transmissible diseases like gonorrhea and HIV can be easily prevented by using a condom as long as the condom is used correctly and does not break.
If you have a latex allergy, you can buy condoms made from polyurethane. They are also very effective.
2007-03-29 13:21:02 · answer #1 · answered by Gumdrop Girl 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First I need to address Mike K. You're being a complete bonehead by posting this information because it gives everyone the impression that dissidents are a bunch of unsafe sex practicing and advocating knuckleheads. People won't take us seriously if we give people the impression that being unwise when it comes to sexuality is ok.
FIRST, the question is very much dependent on what demographic you are in. According to the CDC there were all of 476 'AIDS' cases in people 15 to 19 years old. Yet there were nearly 9 million std's in such people, including about 750,000 unwanted pregnancies.
AIDS is something that primarily affects people who abuse drugs or live in poverty (Africa for instance). Or people who use antiretroviral drugs most specifically AZT or other nucleoside analogs.
Despite all the propoganda that AIDS doesn't descriminate, in fact it very much does. This is why middle-class straight white women who don't shoot up IV drugs aren't considered a 'risk group'.
2007-03-29 20:46:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Remarkably low. Condoms, when utilized properly, are *almost* 100% effective against HIV and the myriads of other horrible, not so horrible, and sometime downright funny sexually transmitted diseases out there. Don't quote me on this figure, but I believe that the chances of contracting HIV while having vaginal sex, with a condom, are about 1 in 5,000,000, which is f*cking never.
-J.
2007-03-29 20:05:02 · answer #3 · answered by Jason 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
even if you use condoms, sometimes they have or spring a leak=its best to abstain from having sex with people who have aids or sexual diseases
2007-03-29 20:02:37 · answer #4 · answered by caffsans 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
20%.
80% of the time condoms are safe.
2007-03-29 21:07:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Doesn't matter. Even if it were one in a million, you could be that one. Is that a chance you wanna take?
2007-03-29 22:46:56 · answer #6 · answered by amyvalencia870 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Miniscule if used properly!
2007-03-29 20:01:12 · answer #7 · answered by jake78745 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋