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Am I at HIV risk from this contact with menstrual blood?

Yesterday I had an encounter with a sex worker. I am currently living in a north African country. She provided a condom (but she asked if I want to use it, which is worrisome). We used this condom. It was too tight and quickly I decided to change this condom (which was intact) and put my own one which was more comfortable. After we finished I saw a lot of blood on the condom and on the base of my penis (not protected and on which I have small warts). She was just starting to have her periods as the first condom was intact from blood. Also when I removed the condom carefully to avoid that blood enter in contact with the head of my penis, I had some of it on a cut on my thumb I had that morning which was still stinging but not bleeding.
According to you, am I at risk for HIV from this event? My concerns are from the warts and the cut in contact with possibly contaminated blood. Should I wait 4 or 6 weeks before testing and resuming unprotected sex with my regular partner?
Thanks much
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Thanks much... but can we state safely that skin with warts is "intact skin" ?
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Only the head needs protection and that happened. Nothing to worry about. Also reread about the 3, and notice that intact skin is not relevant since it is not mentioned.
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You can't get hiv when you use a condom because only the head needs protection which happened, so you should move on. Next time don't have sex with a csw who makes condoms optional, if that was her intent.
This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore  testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  
Only 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching, external rubbing or oral activities. This HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk. Because of all the research statistics, doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either.
If you didn't have one of the 3 then you are just worrying about your own hiv theory - which is unrealistic for you to think that can become reality - so you should move on back to your happy life instead.
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