Scared!!

[Timaya88]

Hellooo!
I live in Kano, Nigeria. Risk of HIV here is very high!! So the question is yesterday night, I slept with a prostitute PROTECTED (no breakage nothing). That girl didn't tell me she was on her period. As soon as I was done, I saw blood on the condom and on my pubes, it wasn't very much on my pubes but it was noticeable!
I have a small wound from when I shaved my pubes a week, it wasn't bleeding. She says she's fine but I can't trust her 100%. What is the risk of contracting HIV? What do I do? I'm panicking!!!

[elcharles]

Hey bro,am also from naija and had an experience quiet like urs except that their was no blood exposed and i had a protected sex,due to worries i developed symptoms and the moderators advice really help,i got tested in 3mnths and found out that am perfectly fine...just move on and stop worrying,u'll be fine..

Please stay off the internet for a while...

[LIZZIE LOU]

transmission takes place INSIDE the body...as in a penis INSIDE a vagina / anus.

you had no risk ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[Timaya88]

Thanks Teak, I feel much better already. But I read that someone can be infected from blood to blood outside body, as in blood to wound. How should the wound be for it to be infectious?

[coolgil]

what if the shave ound was from the same day having sex !

[Timaya88]

Okay I see, but the thing is when I removed my condom, some blood from condom touched my shaft. Then I washed with water.. Could it enter my penis or urethra??

[LIZZIE LOU]

a wound from a week ago is NOT an entry point for hiv to enter the bloodstream.

you had NO risk and do not need testing.