Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Risk sex between women


With regard to lesbians, bisexual women and HIV remains a lot of ambiguous. Thus, it is unknown how HIV has spread in the community of lesbians. It is anticipated that a small but significant number of lesbians have HIV and that HIV transmission from women to women is possible. In the medical literature described several cases of HIV transmission during sex between women. However, this risk is usually much lower than in sex with men, and monitoring of pairs of women, of whom one is HIV-positive, showed that the possible risk is very low.

Nevertheless, the risk is. Not long ago, was described in detail the case of HIV transmission in a permanent pair of women. Infected with HIV twenty-year woman who knew that her partner HIV-positive, and regularly donate blood tests for HIV. Other partners she had no drugs, she never used. The peculiarity of the case was that the analysis of the virus showed that the two girls were identical strain of the virus. According to the doctors HIV transmission occurred during the sharing imitator, which sometimes remained blood.

The problem is that the very method of keeping statistics on HIV, often leads to incorrect conclusions about the risk for lesbian and bisexual women. If the HIV-positive woman says that she had sex with many women and one man in the statistics would indicate that she was heterosexual. In addition, medical workers usually feel uncomfortable when discussing female homosexuality, they may have sustained Gomorrah prejudices, as a result, they often feel that if a woman HIV, he crossed it from men, either by using drugs.

There are many lesbian and bisexual women who have contracted HIV through injecting drug use. In reality, however, is difficult to determine the route of transmission of HIV in each of these cases. For example, the use of certain drugs such as cocaine, increases the risk of HIV transmission during sex, and this in turn could increase the risk when sex between women. In the lesbian community there is a myth that there is no risk of sex between women. However, HIV and sexually transmitted infections, it is a real problem for women who have sex with women, just this problem, which is not to say.

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