Some of you guys should really start taking PReP. It is highly effective at preventing HIV transmission.
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html
For questions about HIV risk. Everytime you have sex there is 2 possible outcomes. HiV yes/no. You can further reduce your risk a number of ways by not having high risk sexual partners. A few other doctors in the forum have chimed in on this subject before. As your N increases so does your chances of having contact with other high risk sexual contacts. Think about this for a second: say that you have a N of 150 and you bang a woman (lets call her Jessica) with an N of 150 (unknowingly). How many of Jessica’s 150 sex partners have had high risk sexual contacts? The network graph explodes exponentially, meaning that that 1 high risk sexual contact could expose you to tens of thousands other sexual contacts, and high risk sexual contacts (gays, ladyboys, IV users, prostitutes, bi men, etc.). Now here is the sad part about statistics and population statistics: the ecological falacy. At the individual level there is no predicitng your odds or risk as a sexual contact is a bernoulli trial. What the hell does that mean? It means that your only possible outcomes from any sex encounter are: yes hiv OR no HIV. Averages (reported in these report posted by forum members) are at the population level and are based on the sum of sexual encounters (divided by new hiv cases). The population information tells you nothing about your individual risk in any single sexual encounter, as you could simply just have an unlucky roll of the dice. This is how averages work and outliers exist (variance- some people will be unlucky and contract hiv on their first contact (very rare) and some people will bang 40,000 people and not contract hiv (very rare). At the individual sex encounter level you can only mitigate transmission risk with condoms or PReP. PReP is effective without condoms.
FWIW: Research shows that people with an N over 250 sexual partners have significantly higher odds of hiv transmission.
Gentlemen:
1. Take PReP
2. Use condoms
3. Screen women for hiv risk factors in rank order (formerly had a penis, iv drug users, has sex with gays, has a large N, lack of health insurance, visible health problems [teeth, mouth, nails, ears, mouth, feet, vagina]
You can expect women to lie about many of the items listed in number 3. Also, if you are picking up ONS drunk or while partying this shit becomes more difficult to evaluate objectively.
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Sorry OP, I have been reading the thread for a while and I wish you the best. My two cents: keep taking the drugs and make sure that you disclose it to your partners. You don’t want these people out hunting you or your family in your sleep, want the legal trouble, or a corrupt government hunting you down.
https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html
For questions about HIV risk. Everytime you have sex there is 2 possible outcomes. HiV yes/no. You can further reduce your risk a number of ways by not having high risk sexual partners. A few other doctors in the forum have chimed in on this subject before. As your N increases so does your chances of having contact with other high risk sexual contacts. Think about this for a second: say that you have a N of 150 and you bang a woman (lets call her Jessica) with an N of 150 (unknowingly). How many of Jessica’s 150 sex partners have had high risk sexual contacts? The network graph explodes exponentially, meaning that that 1 high risk sexual contact could expose you to tens of thousands other sexual contacts, and high risk sexual contacts (gays, ladyboys, IV users, prostitutes, bi men, etc.). Now here is the sad part about statistics and population statistics: the ecological falacy. At the individual level there is no predicitng your odds or risk as a sexual contact is a bernoulli trial. What the hell does that mean? It means that your only possible outcomes from any sex encounter are: yes hiv OR no HIV. Averages (reported in these report posted by forum members) are at the population level and are based on the sum of sexual encounters (divided by new hiv cases). The population information tells you nothing about your individual risk in any single sexual encounter, as you could simply just have an unlucky roll of the dice. This is how averages work and outliers exist (variance- some people will be unlucky and contract hiv on their first contact (very rare) and some people will bang 40,000 people and not contract hiv (very rare). At the individual sex encounter level you can only mitigate transmission risk with condoms or PReP. PReP is effective without condoms.
FWIW: Research shows that people with an N over 250 sexual partners have significantly higher odds of hiv transmission.
Gentlemen:
1. Take PReP
2. Use condoms
3. Screen women for hiv risk factors in rank order (formerly had a penis, iv drug users, has sex with gays, has a large N, lack of health insurance, visible health problems [teeth, mouth, nails, ears, mouth, feet, vagina]
You can expect women to lie about many of the items listed in number 3. Also, if you are picking up ONS drunk or while partying this shit becomes more difficult to evaluate objectively.
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Sorry OP, I have been reading the thread for a while and I wish you the best. My two cents: keep taking the drugs and make sure that you disclose it to your partners. You don’t want these people out hunting you or your family in your sleep, want the legal trouble, or a corrupt government hunting you down.