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Blood fall on my wound.
Yesterday My arm was bitten by a mosquito,and i think i had scratched that place,it turned red amd looked like a wound,but it didn't bleed.About 7 minutes later,I went to the stadium to meet my friend,when I got there,my friend was swinging his hands,and I definitely saw his hands bleeding,I felt some kind of stuff drop on the wound i have mentioned before,I just keep wondering whether it could be my friend's blood,and if so,am I at a risk?(My friend often has unprotected sex) One thing I can make sure is my wound wasn't bleeding,but it remains red until now.
Anxiousnomore spelled it all out. I'll just stress that this is not a risk. Unless you have unprotected (no condom and penetration required) vaginal or anal sex or share IV drug needles, you will not get HIV. Mosquitos, friends bleeding at the stadium will NOT transmit the virus.
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air (someone's blood drips, sprays etc. ). You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are only 3 ways to get hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
HIV is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe.
Only way this is even a theoretical risk is if you 2 were in some kind of car accident scenario with deep wounds and both people pushing those wounds deeply inside the other person's wounds at the same time - which you wouldn't do since the pain would be excruciating.
HIV is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the WORST that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either. You can do what you did any time and be safe.
Only way this is even a theoretical risk is if you 2 were in some kind of car accident scenario with deep wounds and both people pushing those wounds deeply inside the other person's wounds at the same time - which you wouldn't do since the pain would be excruciating.
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