How Can Someone Get HIV From Sexual Intercourse?
HIV can be spread through unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected partner. It can be spread from male to female, female to male, or male to male sexual contact. Female-to-female sexual transmission is possible, but rare. Unprotected sexual intercourse means sexual intercourse without correct and consistent condom use. HIV may be in an infected person’s blood, semen, or vaginal secretions. It is thought that it can enter the body through cuts or soressome so small you don’t know they’re thereon tissue in the vagina, penis, or rectum, and possibly the mouth. HIV is transmitted by anal, vaginal, or oral intercourse with a person who is infected with HIV. Since many infected people have no apparent symptoms of the condition, it’s hard to be sure who is or is not infected with HIV. So, the more sex partners a person has, the greater his or her chances are of encountering someone who is infected and becoming infected themselves.
