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| Last updated: 03.02.06 |
- Having HIV might affect the way you feel about sex.
- Sexual problems are common in people with HIV, but treatments are available.
- HIV-positive people can pass on HIV during sex.
- Condoms, when properly used, provide excellent protection against HIV and most other sexually transmitted infections.
- Sexual health check-ups are free and confidential.
- There are many STIs and most can increase your chances of passing on HIV during sex.
- There is a risk that HIV can be transmitted by oral sex, but this risk is much lower than the risk from unprotected anal or vaginal sex.
- People with an undetectable viral load may still be infectious.
- There have been cases of people with HIV being reinfected with other strains of HIV that are drug-resistant.