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Gloves to Ear ?

I saw a friend of mine he is a doctor, while we hugged he insert his finger in my ear by mistake like very deep and painful
he was wearing gloves I don’t know if it’s clean or dirty, so what should I do? Does ear provide a passage is it high risk?
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (gloves, saliva, blood,  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. 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.

Your fear that there are 4 routes makes no sense since you have read there are only 3.
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If you have read ANY questions on this forum, you would know this is zero risk.  HIV is spread through SEXUAL contact of having unprotected vaginal or anal sex or SHARING IV DRUG NEEDLES to inject drugs. Touching your ear with a glove.  ZERO risk.
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Thank you, I’m aware of the routes which is unprotected sex and sharing needles but I’m ignorant by blood entering the mucus membrane by some how,
like this situation if the gloves were contaminated by previous patients blood and enter my ear it’s still zero risk? I will continue my life gladly if it’s not a risk
Yes, continue your life.  This is no risk and zero possibility of transmission. Read the risks like this .  .  .  ONLY those things result in HIV. Everything else won't.  
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