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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do Brooke mueller and their twin sons have it?[/quote]

Highly unlikely. It's extremely difficult for hiv to be transmitted through heterosexual sex. [/quote]

That's a very misleading myth.

[url]https://www.aidstruth.org/misuse-of-studies/padian/[/url]

[quote]HIV is unquestionably transmitted through heterosexual intercourse. Indeed, heterosexual intercourse is now responsible for 70-80% of all HIV transmissions worldwide (2). [/quote][/quote]

No, PP's phrasing was imprecise, but they are actually correct. HIV is not easy to get that way. Studies have estimated that if you have unprotected vaginal sex once with an asymptomatic infected partner, your odds of getting HIV from that encounter are somewhere between 0.7-1.3%. Probably even lower if the person is on antivirals. The 70-80% number is just looking at the slice of the "already infected" pie attributable to a particular transmission method, not the actual odds of getting infected that way. Having heterosexual sex with an infected partner will not give you HIV anywhere near 80% of the time. It's still not a risk you'd want to take knowingly, but HIV is surprisingly hard to transmit, not at all like herpes.

But I have no sympathy for Charlie Sheen and he's no victim here. Around 80% of hemophiliacs in the US who were alive in the 1980s are now dead because of contaminated blood products they had to take to keep from bleeding to death or being crippled. Those are victims. Not Charlie Sheen. [/quote]

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