Casual sex and HIV transmission.

Vulvodynia and HIV: causal or casual association?

BACKGROUND No study exists on HIV and vulvodynia. OBJECTIVE To evaluate vulvodynia in HIV infected women and its possible association with HIV. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Section of Infectious Diseases, University of Turin. METHODS 235 HIV positive and 272 HIV negative women were studied for vulvar pain between June 1995 and Januar...

Casual Sex among Young Adults: Education Differentials

HIV/AIDS Disease: Transmission Transition

HIV transmission from cunnilingus or from receiving oral sex?

(1) Dear All knowing Alice, Both you & the Columbia AIDS manual note that the risk of AIDS transmission by unprotected cunnilingus is less (at least when the woman's not having her period) than via unprotected anal/vaginal intercourse. What I'd like to know is, how much less? Are there any statistics? Are there any documented cases of AIDS being spread this way? If so, how often does it seem to...

Prevention of Mother to Child HIV Transmission

In Iran 8% of HIV- infected cases are women. Since most of them are young and in childbearing ages, in case of becoming pregnant and not receiving preventive measures, they can infect their child. Without Preventive measures transmission rate is 15 to 45 percent. Several factors such as sever stage of HIV and AIDS ,CD4 low count, high viral loud, acute retroviral phase, STDs, vaginal delivery, ...