Commentary: Probability of HIV transmission through anal intercourse

Commentary: probability of HIV transmission through anal intercourse.

Anal intercourse remains the most common means of HIV transmission in most of the developed world. Homosexual men represent the largest group of new HIV infections in Australia, Western Europe and North America. The rate of HIV diagnosis in homosexual men is on the increase in these regions, and this most likely reflects a true increase in HIV incidence. Recently, it has become clear that homos...

HIV transmission risk through anal intercourse: systematic review, meta-analysis and implications for HIV prevention

BACKGROUND The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infectiousness of anal intercourse (AI) has not been systematically reviewed, despite its role driving HIV epidemics among men who have sex with men (MSM) and its potential contribution to heterosexual spread. We assessed the per-act and per-partner HIV transmission risk from AI exposure for heterosexuals and MSM and its implications for HIV pre...

INFECTIOUS DISEASE HIV transmission risk through anal intercourse: systematic review, meta-analysis and implications for HIV prevention

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK, Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Disease, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Department of Infectious Disease Ep...

Transmission of HIV-1 infection by oroanal intercourse.

We report the cases of two homosexual men, one of whom is believed to have been infected with HIV-1 during oroanal intercourse with the other, his only current sexual partner. Both patients had sero-conversion illnesses with similar symptoms and signs, and of similar duration. The practise of oroanal intercourse is known to be associated with the transmission of enteric infections and has been ...

The role of heterosexual anal intercourse for HIV transmission in developing countries: are we ready to draw conclusions?