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Fresh Precum on Cut in Hand

I am a 47 year old gay man from India. Last night I hooked up with a 51 year old man who's HIV status is unknown but I know that this guy does sex with multiple men. I masturbated him with my hand and his precum landed on my hand and I felt the cold sticky sensation from it. Also he rubbed his penis head with precum onto my penis head briefly. Now I am terrified that what if there were very small scratches and cuts on my hand as a result of scratching due to cold season? as I felt little burning sensation also when his precum landed on my hand. Also what if there were very small microscopic cuts on my glans penis where his precum directly touched mine.

I am going nuts thinking about this incident and just can't put my mind to rest. Does these two activities put me at risk for HIV infection? Do I need to worry and get tested? Please advice.
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3191940 tn?1447268717
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The only risks for HIV in adults are:
1) Having unprotected anal or vaginal sex, or
2) sharing intravenous needles with IV drug users.

You cannot get HIV or any STD through your hands, even if your hands get blood or fluid on them. You also cannot get HIV from hands or fingers - not yours, not anybody else's - EVEN IF those hands/fingers have blood or fluid on them and touch your genitals or cuts.,

If you do not engage in any of the activities I mentioned above with someone HIV+ or whose HIV status is unknown to you, you will NEVER have to worry about getting HIV. There is no information you could add about this event that would make it a risk for HIV.

You had ZERO risk for HIV and you do not need to test.
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (maybe blood, maybe cuts anywhere, finger , cum, , 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 with a penis, 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. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER 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 ANSWER "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 from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
If you still have questions about your risk, after reading all of the above, then it is because you didn't answer the QUESTION above.
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