A question for the Medical people.

Anyone else of couse can write too if you want,

What I'm wondering is that I have a friend that is convinced that although other STD's can be transmitted by oral sex HIV/AIDS isn't.

I am not sure about this but I do know that you can't get it from kissing. It seems that oral sex may be different, especially if the recipient is male.

Am I wrong about this?

 

its transmitted through mucouse membranes i believe
it is lil harder to get it through oral but its definately possible

 

If body cells are transferred, that's how it happens, because the cell is assimilated/absorbed (i'm not medical) and so the antibodies, which have HIV in them, are included in the new body.

So if cells are crossed over (blood, semen) then it happens. If you're kissing, it'd only be if you manage to get cheek cells in the saliva, which our biology teacher said was more difficult to occur.


But this is just secondary school biology. I'm not saying this is definitive, prove me wrong, enlighten me... Just trying to help..

 

It is unlikely, but not impossible to become infected with HIV from the saliva of an infected person. If there is any possibility of blood contamination from one person to the other, HIV is a very real, very big possibility. So that means, if either person has any sores (scrapes, scratches, gaping wounds, sore throat, cold sore, chapped lips) in or around the mouth (or the genitals), HIV infection is a very real danger.

 

Yes, it could be transfered through oral, though its less likely. You could have small cuts you don't even notice and get it through there.

 

You can get it from performing or receiving oral sex, yes.

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa19.htm