http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/articl...ds-newsxml
A person infected with HIV will transmit the virus to their partner once in every 900 times they have unprotected sex, say scientists.
But then later on the article says
He also stated that while most of the findings can be generalised to other countries, the number of sexual acts needed to transmit the virus is likely specific to the African population studied.
Which kind of makes the whole entire article useless...
Any thoughts? I don't know if this is really higher than other studies, but I've seen that the rate for female to male transmission is less than half the rate of male to female transmission...
The scariest stat that they assert is this:
The new study also confirmed condoms are highly effective in preventing HIV infection, reducing the risk of transmission by 78 per cent.
That doesn't seem like much protection...I originally thought it was like 95+% effective.
A person infected with HIV will transmit the virus to their partner once in every 900 times they have unprotected sex, say scientists.
But then later on the article says
He also stated that while most of the findings can be generalised to other countries, the number of sexual acts needed to transmit the virus is likely specific to the African population studied.
Which kind of makes the whole entire article useless...
Any thoughts? I don't know if this is really higher than other studies, but I've seen that the rate for female to male transmission is less than half the rate of male to female transmission...
The scariest stat that they assert is this:
The new study also confirmed condoms are highly effective in preventing HIV infection, reducing the risk of transmission by 78 per cent.
That doesn't seem like much protection...I originally thought it was like 95+% effective.