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During this time, there are very high levels of HIV in the body. This is known as a high viral load. When a person has a high viral load, they can easily pass HIV to others. Causes When a person gets HIV, the virus makes copies called CD4...

Causes HIV is passed through vaginal and anal sexual contact.  This includes both penetrative sex and sexual activities where there is an exchange of body fluids.  There is a very low chance that HIV may be passed through oral...

A PDF version of the HIV Seroconversion Illness topic page on SmartSexResource. Last updated March 2014.

Understanding the window period of HIV tests - time from infection to a positive result - is important in order to provide appropriate information to clients, including when to test after a possible exposure to HIV. Progress in HIV testing...

Articles Reviewed Partners PrEP Study: Baeten JM et al. Antiretroviral prophylaxis for HIV prevention in heterosexual men and women. New England Journal of Medicine. 2012 Aug 2;367(5):399-410. FEM PrEP Study: Van Damme L et al. Pre-...

Background People with newly-acquired HIV experience very high viral loads in the first two months after infection, and are more infectious during this period called acute HIV infection (AHI). We set out to learn about gay men’s...

I have an slight dry cough and tiredness lil headache after 4 days ...Is this a symptom of hiv
Hi, I had a exposure which was high risk. Please believe me when I say high risk and then every symptom in the book for HIV. All of them with consistent timing which made me believe I acquired the virus. Now the confusing part is in seven...
Does acute symtoms specially fever of Hiv (after 2-3 weeks of exposure) respond to paracetamol? Can symptoms back if paracetamol wore off?
Hi, Can pain and ringing in the ear with pressure in the ear and the head be a possible early hiv symptom after two weeks of an exposure? In other words are these considered flu like symptoms that may be hiv related?
Dear Sir/Madam, I am 39 year Male from India.I had unprotected Vaginal sex with a lady highly doubt to be HIV+ve as she disappeared from that day. I had almost all the symtoms after 2 weeks of exposer,viz.Rashes on the upper trunk of the...
Can you get fatigue, sore throats, body pain , headache in 4 days when you are infected with hiv?
Does the rash in acute HIV infection appears and disappears, or it just stay for 1 week or 2?
Hi, I had sex with sex worker in India. Before sex I had an itchy area on my testicle. I licked her pussy for about 1 minute then fingered her pussy. It wore a condom for intercourse. The duration of all this act was for about 4-5...
Hello, I had unprotected sex with a sexual worker in a massage parlour and about 4/5 days afterwards I began to have slight muscle and joint pain in my legs and arms, nothing severe. A few days after that, I had a sore, stiff neck and sore...
Hi, Thank you for the quick reply! Question was: --------------------------- Hi, I'm a male and had an unprotected vaginal sex. I tested at 21 days(3 weeks), 42 days(6 weeks), and 60 days (8 weeks) all negative 4th generation HIV...