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Sorry but i am not good at math, can someone help me ,what is the probality of a person contacting hiv in a city with a population of 190,000.with 6,000 people carrying the virus in the city.

Originally Posted by canyouhelpme

Sorry but i am not good at math, can someone help me ,what is the probality of a person contacting hiv in a city with a population of 190,000.with 6,000 people carrying the virus in the city.

Not enough information. Over what period? how many times will they
have unprotected sex? What is the transmission probability per encounter?
Does this depend on sexual practice? Gaye straight? ...

RonL

thanks for you reply,im talking a one time encounter with a female using a Condom,what the transmission probality in this one encounter,and lets just say she has been with 20 men 18 protected 2 unprotected

Originally Posted by canyouhelpme

thanks for you reply,im talking a one time encounter with a female using a Condom,what the transmission probality in this one encounter,and lets just say she has been with 20 men 18 protected 2 unprotected

You are supposed to tell us the rate, this is not an epidemiology site
we help with the maths not gathering data.

(don't worry: one encounter, hetro, protected in this case probably <1/100
chance of transmission other things being equal)

RonL

Originally Posted by canyouhelpme

thanks for you reply,im talking a one time encounter with a female using a Condom,what the transmission probality in this one encounter,and lets just say she has been with 20 men 18 protected 2 unprotected

Your professor gave you such a question?

The probability that a person have HIV is:

(Problem is, we do not know the male/female population. I will assume it is equal then what I said is true).

I will assume when it is protected the probability is zero. Thus, the harlot did it twice with two different men. The 18 make no difference it was protected.
The probability she did contract HIV is (assume unprotected leads to HIV):


Thus the probability the harlot is safe is about 94%.

Originally Posted by ThePerfectHacker

Your professor gave you such a question?

The probability that a person have HIV is:

(Problem is, we do not know the male/female population. I will assume it is equal then what I said is true).

I will assume when it is protected the probability is zero. Thus, the harlot did it twice with two different men. The 18 make no difference it was protected.
The probability she did contract HIV is (assume unprotected leads to HIV):

Even here we have a problem, as we don't know the infection prob. per
encounter, but it is definitly less than 1

Thus the probability the harlot is safe is about 94%.

There are lots of other things we don't know which make this an impossible
sum, we need to know the hetro infected population, and ...

Also it does not look like homework to me...

All we can say is the use of a condom should make the transmission via
the obvious route unlikley, but there are other transmission mechanisms
about which very little is known.

RonL

RonL

And, unfortunately, a condom is not a perfect guard against the disease either, as they can break, slip off due to improper use, etc. This factor also should be included.

-Dan

thank you for your help everyone