How many people go for HIV test for each year just to check their status?
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More than you could possibly imagine.
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with being tested for any STD (not just HIV) if you are involved in a sexual relationship...it doesn't matter with who. In fact, I think these people are taking responsibility for their own sexual actions...something that is very important and something everyone who is sexually active should do.
I don't think trust has anything to do with it. I think it has everything to do with wanting to maintain your own health and taking the action to do so.
I'm in a monogamous, faithful relationship. However, due to the nature of my job, I get tested for HIV and hepatitis every 3 months (I'm an EMT and I do come in contact with blood and body fluids). My boyfriend, who does NOT work in a job where he could be exposed to body fluids, gets tested once a year. He likes it that I take responsibility and do my part to prevent either one of us from contracting something.
My most recent exposure was pertussis (aka whooping cough). Another 10 days of Cipro...but we have no small children in the house.
Everyone needs to take personal responsibility for their own health. No one else is going to do it.
EMT
Alright, heres the thing, HIV is almost completely preventable. When speaking in terms of sexual transmission, using condoms and lube, will help reduce the spread of HIV. If you know, through testing that you are not HIV positive, and from that point on, you practice safe, monogamous sex, the chances of you getting HIV from your partner are slim. If you are worried that he or she may be sleeping around, I would casually suggest that they get tested just so that you both can be certain. I would bring up that you have been tested, and that you would feel safer knowing that there is nothing "lingering" from past life experiences. Once the two of you are certain that, neither of you are HIV positive, keeping that way should not be too difficult.
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I agree in getting tested. I do not think that if you are practicing safe sex and are in a monogamous relationship that you need to get a yearly test. You are not in a high risk group.
btw I work for an AIDS/HIV Organization, I'm really not making this up
have a good day
above user is right, but to further comment the gentleman above me, for those people that have sex a lot, and dont' consistently use condoms, then they should be tested once a year.
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