This is a purely hypothetical question so please no lectures, only opinions?

If you found out that you were HIV positive, would you and could you inform all previous sexual partners that may have become infected or infected you?

Could you track them all down?

This is a sensible question so please only leave sensible answers.

consciously i would have to because if a person passed it on to somebody they could get a female pregnant and than the child would have it and that ain't fair and i would not sleep with anybody else i would also try my hardest to track every last one of em down

That would be the responsible thing to do because for one, you would have had to get it from somewhere and two, if you don't know how long you've had it, you don't know who could have been exposed.

to be honest, i dont have the guts. id be a coward even tho i no its wrong. but i always use protection and i no im not hiv positive so i dont think i hav to worry. PLUS im not getting any anyway lol.

Yes and yes. There are sexual health organisations set up to help you do this. You give them as much information as you can about previous sexual partners and they will confidentially contact these people and warn them they might have something and should go to GP or GUM clinic. If they come forward as +ve they then trace that person's sexual contacts etc.

As a side note, It's against the law to knowingly spread HIV via unprotected sex. A GP is under a duty of care if he believes you are going around performing unsafe sex they can and should inform the police.

i'm the same as answerer no 2

i could track them all down easy .... I am a one man woman for over 35 years

depends on how many you have had and can remember them all also if you were sober during

To be honest, Id probably only inform the person i was currently with and any other future partners. I wouldnt want to start pointing the finger. Especially given the fact that there would always be the possibility that I could have actually given it to them. But yes.. I could def track them all down!!

If you went to a doctor or clinic with this problem they would
make you list all of your contacts. it would be alot easier if you knew where everyone is but once you give the names to the clinic they or the cdc will track them down and have them come for a check up.

If that happened to me i would look for past partners. It will be hard to track them but they still have to know just in case.

yes i would--many years ago i came down with gonorrhea-contacted the only 2 women i had been with--yes i figured how who gave it to me

No, I probably would have difficulty finding everyone I was ever intimate with but thankfully I tested negative for HIV since the last time I was intimate with anyone (more than 12 months ago). If I was, I would try to contact anyone I might have put at risk, yes.