IN RARE CASE WOMAN WITH H.I.V. INFECTS FEMALE SEX PARTNER, C.D.C. SAYS

Human immunodeficiency virus, center. Lesbian transmission of H.I.V. was reported Thursday. 



The first confirmed case of lesbian transmission of H.I.V. was reported on Thursday by federal health officials, who said the event was exceedingly rare but nonetheless advised lesbian couples in which one partner is infected to take precautions.
Genetic tests showed that the virus in both women was more than 98 percent identical, all but proving that one had infected the other, according to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In numerous previous studies of women who thought they might have been infected by other women, either no genetic testing was done or the newly infected women reported other activity that could have been the cause, such as recent sex with men, drug injection or transfusions.
The women in the new case, both in their 40s, lived in Houston when the transmission took place in 2012. The infected partner had been on treatment for H.I.V. from early 2009 to late 2010 but had stopped taking the drugs. The women reported having sex during their periods and using insertive sex toys, sometimes so roughly that bleeding occurred.
The newly infected woman reported no other sex partners for six months before infection; she tested negative on an H.I.V. antibody test when she sold blood plasma in March 2012. Antibody tests can have a “window period,” usually one to three months, during which a newly infected person can test negative because antibodies to the virus have not yet formed.
Ten days later, the woman went to a hospital emergency room with flulike symptoms that sometimes indicate an early H.I.V. infection. She again was negative on an antibody test, and was given antibiotics on the assumption that she had a cold or the flu. Eighteen days later, again at a blood plasma center, she tested positive.
While barrier methods for non-penile sex, such as dental dams, do exist, they are impractical for use with insertive toys and not popular for oral sex. In an editorial, C.D.C. officials advised that all infected people having sex with uninfected people stay on daily antiretroviral drugs, which can reduce virus levels in blood and bodily fluids so much that transmission is highly unlikely.



LEVITICUS 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

ROMANS 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.