Oral Sex and HIV Transmission: A Critical Analysis

Oral Sex and HIV Transmission: A Critical Analysis

Introduction

The article in discussion here debates over the perceptions that patients and health care professionals have regarding the transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) through oral sex. The article begins by highlighting the fact that there remains a fact as to the possibility of HIV being transmitted through oral sex among individuals. Healthcare professionals believe that the risk of transmission remains significantly low. There have been researches that show that insertive oral sex can lead to the transmission of HIV but opponents argue that those studies were ...