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Clinics are pretty good. But in general, if you’re a woman in a first world nation your odds of getting it are really low, unless you do significant amounts of anal sex with bisexual men or inject drugs.

Same thing with men. Straight men aren’t at much risk. Bi and gay men are at high risk.

If you have a hiv+ partner, prep is good enough to keep you safe. Just take it always as prescribed.

Pep in for when you may have been exposed, and you need to get it as soon as possible. It’s like a morning after pill. Within 72 hours of exposure but sooner is better.

Then for anyone who does unprotected casual sex, there’s doxypep which reduces likelihood of bacterial stds by a lot, so gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis.

If you want a person to explain this to you in real life, there’s different clinics in every American city that would love to take the time to teach you about all of this. Part of their funding is to educate



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