Originally Posted by jewels443

EDIT: All I ever wanted to get across was that the heterosexual stats have been rising, thus risk rises also, and although he may want to soothe you while you await results, he has no business insinuating that it's a gay disease. No matter how "low" the risk is, people often don't know they have it by the time they've spread it to multiple partners and their partners, etc.

If you want the facts about transmittal and the real numbers, try unaids.org. Lots of PDFs that just came out and are difficult to sift through. But Western European stats amongst heterosexuals is specified as on the rise. New infections as of 2007 are 2.5 million, with 33 million that are currently (reported) living with AIDS.

I don't want to argue about how many tests one should or shouldn't take. If the risk of getting hit by a bus is only 1:100,000, would you run in front of a bus to see what happens? I'd rather see people overly cautious, caring enough about their partners not to take any risk whatsoever, than to say "odds are it'll never happen to me."