Sex with a pregnant woman is especially dangerous

What if she is infected with HIV? African researchers have found that pregnant HIV-infected women are of particular concern for its partners. The risk of HIV after sexual contact the male grows twice.

A sexual relationship with HIV-infected   partners of men should take extra care if they are in the beloved. In this case, the risk HIV infection men during sex is doubled, as it became known on the results of the study, which was conducted over two years in Botswana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. In the view of scientists were 3300 couples in which one partner was HIV-infected.

In 1085 HIV was vapor in men and 2235 women pairs. Within two years of the study 823 women became pregnant. Experts pointed out that pregnancy increases the risk of transmission, both from male to female and female to male. However, men risked infected with HIV   from women much stronger.

But the reason for this as it was found was not in a state of immune system partner and not about whether sex is protected or held without the use of condoms. The researchers hypothesized that the reason for the increased risk in this regard can be both immune biological and physiological changes (what - is unclear) that run in the women's body after pregnancy. To explain the results more accurate, additional studies are required.

Pregnancy and Gynecology

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