Psychology 2075 : Sexuality Term 3 Lecture notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: Jacob Fisher

Document Summary

All sexual activities pose risk for hpv infection: age of onset, new partners, serial partners, high risk partners, concurrent partners, total number of partners, heterosexual, homosexual, vaginal, oral, digital contact. Hiv transmission occurs in sexual behaviour, sharing drug injection paraphernalia, unscreened blood transfusion and tissue transplantation, and occupational exposure (police officer, janitor etc. : red line peaks early in infection, after a while you become less infectious, and eventually the virus becomes latent, lives in resouviours in the body enough to make you infectious, but at the end stage of hiv where viral load increases, blue line represents immune system or level of infection indicated by t cells which drops in a linear fashion signaling the disruption of the immune system over time, full t cells at the beginning of diagnosis (1200), at about 8 years, aids happens, inverse realtion from beginning of infection.