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Article: How easily do women sexually transmit AIDS virus to men? (Common Sense about AIDS: An AIDS Awareness and Prevention Guide)
- Article from:
- AIDS Alert
- Article date:
- September 1, 1989
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How easily do women sexually transmit AIDS virus to men?
Perhaps you have heard that it is extremely rare for men to become infected with the AIDS virus through sexual contact with infected women. Some couples may rely on that information to avoid practicing safe sex.
But before taking unnecessary risks, it's important to understand that more than 1,800 men in the United States have contracted the AIDS virus after having unprotected sex with infected women. And although most researchers agree that female-to-male transmission of the AIDS virus is probably less efficient than male-to-female transmission, there is no way of knowing just how rare it is for ...