Transmission of AIDS?!
Question: If two people have HIV and/or AIDS do they have to worry about infecting each other through intercourse? Is there only one strain or can you have two different strains and then become sicker?
Answers: If two people have HIV and/or AIDS do they have to worry about infecting each other through intercourse? Is there only one strain or can you have two different strains and then become sicker?
There are many different strains of HIV, and more keep being found.
Until about 1994, it was generally thought that individuals do not become infected with multiple distinct HIV-1 strains. Since then, many cases of people coinfected with two or more strains have been documented.
All cases of coinfection were once assumed to be the result of people being exposed to the different strains more or less simultaneously, before their immune systems had had a chance to react. However, it is now thought that "superinfection" (being infected with more than one strain) is also occurring. In these cases, the second infection occurred several months after the first. It would appear that the body's immune response to the first virus is sometimes not enough to prevent infection with a second strain, especially with a virus belonging to a different subtype. It is not yet known how commonly superinfection occurs, or whether it can take place only in special circumstances.
As different subtypes progress the disease at different rates, then yes, it is possible to become sicker.
the condition can worsen
no if they both have it they have it...i guess
no, the virus mutates to the host.
If two people with HIV/ AIDS have unprotected sex they can potentially re-infect each other. When you contract HIV/AID it creates a strain based on your genetic make-up. ( I believe only two strains have been discovered) Because everyone is different one person may a have different strain and by having unprotected sex you could potentially re-infect one another and get even sicker.
I mean, if they already have and you want to have incourse why not cause both of you have. I think it doesn't matter cause they both have the same disease and their is no way they are going to be infected again with the same thing. That is like saying I have asthma and I am going to get asthma again from second hand smoke.
Yes
Transmission and prevention
Estimated per act risk for acquisition
of HIV by exposure route[52] Exposure Route Estimated infections
per 10,000 exposures
to an infected source
Blood Transfusion 9,000[53]
Childbirth 2,500[54]
Needle-sharing injection drug use 67[55]
Receptive anal intercourse* 50[56][57]
Percutaneous needle stick 30[58]
Receptive penile-vaginal intercourse* 10[56][57][59]
Insertive anal intercourse* 6.5[56][57]
Insertive penile-vaginal intercourse* 5[56][57]
Receptive oral intercourse* 1[57]