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My farewell post

The forum moderator suspended my instant posting privileges and sent me an e-mail that included the following

I am stunned that an intellectual discussion at the core of the...

joe_zop

Thank you for your post and your kind words. Please take my remarks in the same spirit. Even when we disagree, I benefit from your point of view.


I said "if there was an agenda to be...

hysteromania

I'll take your posts as a break to loosen up in the middle of a serious discussion :) .

Of course, all of us are playing the STD lottery except those who choose abstinence. What...

Prokofiev

Well, we are about to fill a page of the safe sex section in 24 hours, which should be a record for this section of the board :)

I perfectly understand that the one in seven figure...

Prokofiev

Thank you for your commentary.


Please point out the page of the report in which the qualification at least is mentioned in connection with the 85% figure, and also the part where it...

joe_zop

Points well taken. I am not treating the one in seven as cast in stone, but it is the best scientific estimate available. That's what we have. The conclusion is that test kits are three...

joe_zop

Many thanks for your detailed and informed post (coffee seems to work well for you :) ). I am glad you took the time to go through the NIH report, and I will comment on your observations....

Just to be sure there is no confusion, it is three times safer than using condoms.

Again, I agree that if you consider the down side, you will be scared even if the odds are small. Objectively,...

Prokofiev:

Thank you for your response. Here are my comments on some of the points you raised.


>The odds of catching HIV or Herpes with a provider using a condom is an unknown number.

I...

And the winner is ......

I have been researching the subject of testing versus covering in order to quantify the risks involved and have a fair comparison between the two scenarios (see my...

From a post by Zidaho in another section:

Information found on this WSG site regarding the herpes test kit, "PocKit" was GREAT! However, my initial investigation and contact with the company...

The probability for a man to catch HIV from a single covered vaginal encounter with an infected woman is estimated to range from one in several thousand to one in tens of thousands. It is seven times...

Prices for PocKit

Here is an e-mail response from a small US distributor of PocKit (the herpes 10-minute test kit). It's about $20 per kit, but I suspect one can get a better price from other...

spit or stick?

The reference below confirms that OraQuick works with either saliva or finger stick. I contacted the manufacturer to ask about this. Since they applied for FDA approval for finger...

3-minute home test kit for HIV

The Canadian company MedMira received preliminary FDA approval, and is about to receive final approval, for a new easy-to-use HIV-1 test kit called MedMira Reveal...

Someone who actually used the fast test kits :) . This is abridged from a post on another board:

I read about portable HIV testing, and called Abbott in Thailand and
Vietnam (see below). I was...

Instead of measuring the risk per encounter, some studies measure the risk per (total number of encounters a typical person in the study has in a year).



No. They mean to become INFECTED with...

A picture is worth a 1000 words

Here is a picture of the OraQuick 20-minute test kit. Some love it :) , some hate it :mad: . If you are just joining us, start with the February 26 post.
...

Effectiveness of condoms

Just to be sure that there is no confusion here, the 85% figure is the effectiveness of
condoms in preventing HIV transmission compared to bareback, not the probability...

The 85% is not my number. The US Congress commissioned the NIH to determine what
that number is, and NIH had a panel of experts consider a multitude of scientific studies
and concluded that it is...

Performance numbers for PocKit

This is the herpes 10-minute home test kit that I am exploring for checking providers
for herpes-2 (even when they don't have outbreaks). The performance looks...

NIH study says it is one in seven

The US National Institutes of Health conducted a study on the effectiveness of condoms in preventing HIV transmission during vaginal intercourse. The results...

RN:

Many thanks for your well-informed post. Please understand that I have not reached
a conclusion yet. It would be great if we continued the discussion at the intelligent
level of your post,...

hooky wrote (in another section):

>hey sabio
>
>still looking for those numbers. it was something i heard on public radio
>i think about 6 months ago. no luck so far finding it on the net....

purplengold

You are right. The probability is straightforward to compute once you have the components. The one in a million is clearly a guess on my part. My reasoning goes as follows. One in a...