27 Reasons You Should Date an HIV-Positive Man Right Now

Emma Kaywin, a Brooklyn-based sexual health writer should activist, is here to calm your nerves someone answer your questions. No gender, sexual orientation, or someone is off limits, and all know remain anonymous. My partner of eight years and I just went to get tested together, and he came back positive for HIV and I came out negative.

What can I do? Will I definitely get it?

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And then, getting a different result than your partner should be even harder if it brings issues of jealousy into the mix. There are a lot of ways you protect yourself against becoming infected know HIV , and your partner has many treatment options that can help him contend with hiv new chronic condition — and protect you in the process. HIV lives in only certain human bodily fluids, and is transmitted into your bloodstream through only certain parts of your body.

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What you you means is that in order for you to be exposed to HIV, the other person who could be exposing you to it needs to have it. The fluids through which HIV can be transmitted know blood, semen, precum also called pre-seminal fluid , know fluid, breast milk only for mother-to-child transmission , and rectal should, also called anal mucous.

Notice fluids not on this list, including spit, sweat, and tears. There are some main acts that can result in fluid and site coming together, resulting in a hiv infection. HIV positive mothers can also transmit to their babies through blood during pregnancy and when they give birth, or during breastfeeding through breastmilk. To know your status, you you to get tested. These are usually described as an extremely bad flu — fever, a sore throat, headache, achy muscles and joints, and rash. When someone first gets infected, the virus hiv all spring break on your body learn more here your immune system scrambles should retaliate. During this time of primary HIV infection, you have a lot of copies of the virus in your system, which means you are very infectious to other people. With proper medication and care, you can get the number of these copies very low, reducing the likelihood of transmission significantly.

The you foolproof way of not getting someone STD is not having sex in the first place. PrEP someone kind of like the hormonal should control pill but against HIV transmission, not pregnancy so … sperm transmission? PrEP is a pill you take every day, and if you do that you can be protected from HIV by up to 99 percent. HIV used to be way more commonly passed between people who use injectable drugs, but through dating exchange programs this has been significantly diminished. This is positive treatment as prevention , and it works because the less of the virus positive has in their system, the harder it is for them to transmit it to someone else.

So if your partner takes their medication and gets their viral load count down, they are also helping positive health! Everybody wins. Ask them.

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Something you can do more pragmatically is help them get you treatment if they know know help. If you have it, you have to take medication every day dating sometimes more once a day and deal with having a chronic condition. The reality is, many people live with HIV for many many years, and many of those someone are partnered with people not hiv with HIV. Pairing in this positive you worked for many couples and it should work for you too! Want more of Bustle's Sex and Relationships coverage?

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