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Hiv from scrape

Today while at water park I noticed a small scrape on my elbow. Say I was cut by an object on the slide or by another object in the park that had just cut someone else and the object had their blood on it. Is there is risk if it is just a small scrape ?
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You have been fully advised that a cut is not a risk for HIV.  There is nothing further for our members to say about your zero risk event.

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The only risks for HIV transmission in adults are:
1) Having unprotected anal or vaginal sex, or
2) sharing intravenous needles.

It is NOT POSSIBLE to get HIV from any wound that does not require urgent medical attention in order to prevent potentially fatal loss of blood.  You can safely ignore this event and anything else like it.
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Say for instance someone just cut themselves on the slide or object right before me would there be a risk ? I know it probably was not something sharp like a needle as it is right on my elbow bone so I would have def felt something penetrating my skin.
Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (metal which is not a risk for hiv.) No worries, 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. 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 previous advice was clear too. Instead of thinking of thousands of possible situations, it is simpler to compare your encounter to the 3 and ask yourself if you did any of the 3, which you didn't then confidently move on.
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