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STDs and HIV: What are the differences in transmission?
- Some STDs can be passed by direct lesion-to-skin or lesion-tomucous
membrane contact, with no blood, semen, or vaginal
secretions involved. - Some STDs are relatively easy to transmit by oral sex, whereas HIV is
not easily transmitted this way. (Gonorrhea can be passed through fellatio
and Herpes and Syphilis can be passed through fellatio, cunnilingus, and
analingus/rimming). - Although it has not been proven, it may also be possible that STD
infections in the throat or mouth may increase the chances for HIV
infection via this route. - Most STDs are much more sexually infectious than is HIV for any
sexual route of transmission. - STDs are much more common than HIV.