Hiv via sewing needle?

[freakingout111]

I was doing embroidery when I accidentally pricked my finger with the sewing needle and there was a tiny drop of blood that followed. Realistically speaking i know there should not be any threat to me since I have been using this sewing needle since the past few years and I'm sure no one who has hiv has come into contact with it, the only other people that have used it are my mother and brother and i know they dont have hiv. Also this needle has been lying in my own house so I know there would not be any chance of hiv infection right? I just need somebody to reassure me that there is no possibility of hiv through this incident.

I know that it is the hollow bore needles that can carry hiv infection but i also came across an article that has scared me to no end. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8397683.stm
Can you please explain to me why this incident did cause hiv even though it was a sewing needle?

[Vance2335]

No risk

[freakingout111]

Thank you, i understand i had no risk. But just for future precautions and general knowledge, can you explain why the woman in the article got infected through a sewing needle? Because i have seen answers on medhelp that state even with blood present a sewing needle would be no risk since it would be exposed to oxygen but the sewing needle in the article must also have been exposed to air so how did she still get hiv?

[nursegirl6572]

Okay, first of all, you need to stop reading the internet.

There was this quote in the article:

""All he said [was] he was sorry. He said, 'I used needles on you because I wanted you to be the same as me so that you can live with me and you won't leave me'," she said in a statement."

Note the use of the word "needleS".  Also, he was handling syringes full of his own blood.  I'm willing to bet he used more than a sewing needle.  

Your situation is not even remotely similar.  For one, there hasn't even been anyone who is HIV+ who could have even come in contact with the needle, secondly, if there wasn't fresh blood and a deep, significant wound on YOU, a "blood to blood" scenario isn't a concern.

Bottom line, this is an irrational worry.  Put it behind you, and quit searching the web.

[freakingout111]

Can you please clarify one thing for me. I don't understand the last part of your answer at all. "secondly, if there wasn't fresh blood and a deep, significant wound on YOU, a "blood to blood" scenario isn't a concern."
What fresh blood are you talking about because there was fresh blood that came out of my finger when i accidentally pricked it! Or did you mean fresh HIV+ blood from someone who was HIV positive would need to be present on the needle before i pricked myself?

[nursegirl6572]

Or did you mean fresh HIV+ blood from someone who was HIV positive would need to be present on the needle before i pricked myself?
Yes.

There would never be enough blood present on the surface area of a sewing needle to cause a risk, not to mention, the virus cannot remain active when exposed to the elements.

I've told you why this isn't an HIV concern.  You can choose to accept that or not, there's nothing more anyone can add.