YOU can get HIV if you have unprotected oral sex, health experts warned this
week, even though the latest study has found no cases of infection resulting
from oral sex.
The study, by Kimberly Page Shafer and her colleagues from the University of
California at San Francisco, is ongoing. So far, the HIV infection rate from
oral sex in the 198 participants is zero, Shafer told the National HIV
Prevention Conference in Atlanta this week.
However, several cases have been reported which suggest that oral sex can
result in HIV transmission, so the latest findings must be interpreted
cautiously, experts…
