Can you get hiv from kissing a someone?
On the Cheek: HIV is not transmitted casually, so kissing on the cheek is very safe. Even if the other person has the virus, your unbroken skin is a good barrier. No one has become infected from such ordinary social contact as dry kisses, hugs, and handshakes. Open-Mouth Kissing: Open-mouth kissing is considered a very low-risk activity for the transmission of HIV. However, prolonged open-mouth kissing could damage the mouth or lips and allow HIV to pass from an infected person to a partner and then enter the body through cuts or sores in the mouth. Because of this possible risk, the CDC recommends against open-mouth kissing with an infected partner. One case suggests that a woman became infected with HIV from her sex partner through exposure to contaminated blood during open-mouth kissing. For more information refer to the July 11, 1997, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report “Transmission of HIV Possibly Associated with Exposure of Mucous Membrane to Contaminated Blood” located at
You cannot get HIV from kissing, open mouthed, french, or any other for that matter. In science/statistics, it is impossible to prove the non-occurrence of an improbable event. So, no one can say that it is “scientifically proven” that you can’t get HIV from kissing. However, after 20+ years of documenting the epidemiology of the epidemic, we can now say with as much certainty as we will ever be able to that you cannot get HIV from only kissing. There has never been a documented cases of transmission from kissing. And people do LOTS of kissing…think about it. If this was possible we would have seen a pattern of case reports different from what we have seen. Just like if HIV transmission was possible from insect bites, we would see a different pattern of people presenting (children, elderly) with no known risk factors. People and organizations (especially government agencies) are freaked about liability and therefore to “protect themselves” they are providing scientifically true infor
