Female, lesbian: If both of us are positive that we are totally healthy and neither of us are infected with HIV, will we be at risk of getting HIV by having oral sex, masturbation and french kissing?
As far as is known, you can only get HIV from the body fluids of a person infected with HIV. You cannot get HIV from someone who is not carrying the virus. However, the question is how can you be sure that another person is not carrying HIV? It is possible, indeed likely, that a person carrying HIV will do so for many years without displaying any ill health, and quite likely that they will test negative for HIV for, say, six months after picking up the virus. They therefore may not know that they have the virus. If they have ever been in contact with the body fluids of another person they could have picked up HIV. This could be by sexual contact, (even whilst a child), by blood transfusion (before blood was routinely tested, or outside the UK), injection using unsterilized equipment – even giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a person with facial injuries, or coming into contact with blood or vomit from an infected person, or having been passed HIV at birth from their mother.. there
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