Knowing Your Patients: Taking a History and ... - Fenway Health
Knowing Your Patients: Taking a History and ... - Fenway Health
Knowing Your Patients: Taking a History and ... - Fenway Health
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Common Misconceptions about Risk<br />
� I can’t get HIV/STIs if I am the “top” (insertive partner in<br />
anal sex)<br />
� I can’t get STIs from oral sex<br />
� [for HIV- men]<br />
� I don’t need to use condoms with HIV- partners<br />
� My partner didn’t say he’s HIV+, so he must be HIV-<br />
� I don’t need to use condoms with an HIV+ partner if he is taking<br />
anti-retrovirals <strong>and</strong> his viral load is undetectable<br />
� [for HIV+ men]<br />
� I don’t need to use condoms with HIV+ partners<br />
� My partner didn’t want to use a condom, so he must be HIV+<br />
� Lesbians are at low risk of STIs <strong>and</strong> therefore I don’t need<br />
to use protection<br />
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