Risk is Relative
There is one slide from my presentation last week at the Johnson and Johnson Health and Safety Awareness Week that I would like to highlight here. Often when I see patients in the clinic or even in the ward or at the mamak stall, inevitably some one will ask questions like: Can I get HIV from oral sex? Well, can you?
I would like to share the statistics with you here. Read it, ruminate over it and then decide for yourself. 
HIV Transmission (per 10,000 exposures to an infected source)
1. Blood transfusion – 9,000
2. Child birth – 2.500
3. Needle sharing – 67
4. Receptive anal sex* – 50
5. Needle Stick injury – 30
6. Receptive penile-vaginal sex* – 10
7. Insertive anal sex* – 6.5
8. Insertive penile-vaginal sex* – 5
9. Receptive oral sex* – 1
10. Insertive oral sex* – 0.5
*assuming condom not used
Any questions?
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extreme low, worry.
if u got skin peeling off around nail bed and u got contact wif blood….then how high the risk u get infected?
Technically no, syphillis, unlike gonorrhoea, do not present with any bodily discharge, hence the risk of transmission is probably nil. Unless of course if you plan on using his shaver and toothbrush! Eeewwww
Would like to ask you on sphylis …. if it is ok..does sharing same toilet facilities with a syphilis patient put one at risk?