2% if an absolute upper bound, a bound which takes into account human error. A properly used condom will prevent HIV transmission in excess of 99% of the time.
Furthermore, almost everything you can conceivably do has a non-zero probability of killing you- there’s a nonzero probability that your car will explode the next time you turn the key, that you will contract mad cow disease next time you eat a hamburger, that you will contract HIV the next time you receive blood.
Furthermore, HIV is actually quite manageable if you live in the West and get yourself checked out, as you should after sex with an HIV positive partner- I’m not saying you should be okay with getting HIV, just that even if we accept the 2% odds of transmission figure your odds of dying are much lower than that.
I was merely quoting the source the poster gave which no doubt trying to see the condoms in an acceptable light. Yet, it admitted that it is only 98-100% safe for those who use it correctly and I supposed these are with condoms made according to the standard.
That source also said that the pores of the condom is smaller than the HIV virus. This is not true because the HIV virus at 0.5 micron, is about 50 to 100 times smaller than the average rubber pores of the condom.
There is no properly used condom as such as there should not be any margin for error. It’s like a pilot flying an airplane.
***Even if there were no pores in latex, in-use breakage and slip-off rates are “so high as to make condoms ineffective for protection against HIV,” says biochemist and molecular biologist Dr. David G. Collart, Ph.D., of Stone Mountain, Ga. ***
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Again we should consider the latex condoms being used world wide – especially in the third world countries where many of such condoms are sub-standard which makes their safety even worse. Even in the U.S., 4 defects out of 1000 of condoms is acceptable. In simple term which is recognized by everybody, even the proponent of condoms and even condoms manufacturers, the condom is not accepted as guarantee against contracting the HIV virus;
it only reduces the chances of occurrence.
Failure rate in the U.S. is mentioned at between 3% and 15% of those using the condoms.
The British Standards Institute permits up to three out of a hundred to have holes in them when they leave the factory.
In the US, government standards allow only four condoms out of every thousand to have leaks. But users still experience a
failure rate of between 3% and 15%, which is the percentage of women who have an unwanted pregnancy using this method of birth control over a year.
A spokesman from the London Rubber Company (Durex) admitted that if incorrectly used, the failure rate of condoms could be anything from
25% up to 100%, and there are real problems with teaching people how to use them
Then,
Another study of partners using condoms suggests that the risk of
catching HIV is reduced by 85%. That sounds excellent, but it is not. ***If you persist in sleeping regularly with someone who is positive or with numbers of unknown people who are possibly positive, then eventually, condom or no condom, you may get AIDS. Vaginal or anal sex using a condom is not a low-risk or no-risk activity. It carries a medium risk at best. ***
***World Health Organisation ***(WHO) states clearly that the most effective way to prevent sexual transmission of HIV is
to abstain.
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