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...self-delusion" to say that condom distribution is crucial for solving the AIDS crisis as Murray contends. Any member of AIDS Education and Outreach, and any other conscientious AIDS educator, stresses that condoms do not provide a 100 percent guarantee of protection, or even close, particularly with regard to anal...
Theoretically, if the condom does not break, and if it is used properly during oral and vaginal sex, the HIV-virus will not be transmitted during that encounter. Homosexual and heterosexual anal sex is very risky, even with a condom, but a condom will provide some degree of protection. It may not be a total guarantee, but it is the only protection for those who choose to be sexually active in this way. After all, some protection is certainly better than no protection...
...Being on the receiving end of anal intercourse carries the greatest risk, for heterosexuals as well as gays. Blood vessels in tissues lining the anus and rectum are easy to rupture, and that gives HIV a direct passageway to the bloodstream. The majority of sexually transmitted cases (as opposed to those from shared needles or transfusions) probably result from anal intercourse. Vaginal intercourse is less risky; oral sex has the least risk...
...heterosexual couples. While the scientists found 61 cases in which an HIV-infected man gave the virus to a woman, they saw only one case of an infected woman's giving it to a man. And in that case, the couple engaged in some particularly unsafe practices, including unprotected anal sex and swapping sex partners with members of a "swinging" club...
However, she suggested that those engaging in anal sex utilize necessary precautions against infection...