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Article: Oral sex HIV infection risk is low.
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- August 14, 2001
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ATLANTA, Aug. 14, Aug 14, 2001
Though not "safe sex", the receiving partner in oral sex has a zero to 2 percent probability of becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, even allowing for when that person swallows the ejaculate, according to preliminary results of an ongoing study from the University of California at San Francisco.
"We want to tell men who have sex with men to shift from anal sex, which is unsafe, to oral sex which is safer, " Kimberly Page Shafer, lead author and assistant professor of medicine at UCSF's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, told United Press International.
"Another recent study said that oral sex ...