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Can taking a shower reduce chances of getting infected with hiv?
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Hygiene: According to the guidelines for the management and post exposure prophylaxis of individuals who sustain nonoccupational exposure to hiv, ancahrd/ctarc bulletin, february 2001, the risk of transmission as a result of receptive anal sex is somewhere between 1 in 125 to 1 in 31 or approximately three per cent. This doesn't have much to do with hygiene.
Answered 5/14/2016
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