Female-Male HIV Transmission: 1 in 5 Million?

This article in Psychology Today discusses HIV transmission rates:

According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, men almost never get HIV from women. A healthy man who has unprotected sex with a non drug-using woman has a one in 5 million chance of getting HIV. If he wears a condom, the odds drop to one in 50 million. And though it’s easier for men to infect women, the odds that an HIV-positive man will transmit the virus to a woman through sex are less than one in 1,000.

I looked for the original study but didn’t find it. Does anybody know if these stats are correct?

1 Comment so far

  1. arthritishelp on October 10th, 2009

    HIV/AIDS is still rampant today and there is no cure for it. we need to practive safe sex all the time because an ounce of prevention is still better than a pound of cure.

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