5. My partner and I are both HIV positive – there’s no reason for us to practice safer sex.
Practicing safer sex – wearing condoms or using dental dams – can protect you both from becoming exposed to other strains of HIV.
There are over 60 different epidemic strains of HIV-1 in the world.
But usually different regions are dominated by only one or two of them. However, if two strains infect the same person, they can combine to form a cross between the two – known as a recombinant.
Note that this can leads to full blown AIDS more quickly