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Hello, about 4 hours ago I had a unprotected sex with another women as experimentation. I was the top and she was the bottom. i gave her vaginal sex and then we had short sessions of sex her being the bottom and I didn't ejaculate inside of him. . I did not kiss nor put my lips on his skin at all A day after the encounter I became engulfed with terrible regret and became deeply depressed and paranoid thinking I'm infected with HIV. MY PARTNER IS hiv NEGATIVE . Anyway, I began develop a small dry cough and a light sore throat at night.i have a chance of HIV OR NOT.?
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replied December 16th, 2011
Hello and welcome to e health forum. ‎

A single act of unprotected intercourse with a HIV positive person, has a HIV risk of 0.04% per act. Hence multiple ‎sex encounters are very important to ensure that HIV infection is acquired. ‎

The symptoms mentioned by you, appear to be due to streptococcal pharyngitis, which is common, and is a benign ‎‎infection, that resolves soon in most individuals. ‎

In case, your partner, has a confirmed HIV negative status, then there is no chances of HIV transmission.

For people who think they may have been exposed to HIV, having a test and receiving a negative result (which ‎‎‎means they are not infected with HIV), can put their mind at rest. ‎

To relieve your anxiety and for a definitive ‎diagnosis, you might consider getting screened with ‎HIV test. This will ‎help you get over the past exposure and move ‎on ahead in your life. ‎

HIV is diagnosed based on the serological detection in the blood samples, and not from the symptoms that you ‎might ‎be having. A person after exposure to HIV can get ‎tested as early as 4 weeks to 12 weeks with the ELISA for ‎HIV ‎antibody test. 90% of normal individuals who have HIV ‎exposure, will seroconvert within 4-6 weeks. The ‎sensitivity ‎of the ELISA test is 99.9%. ‎






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