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anal fingering and hiv

When I was nine years old, I went to learn swimming. My coach didn’t support me when guiding me, and then I accidentally fell on him. When he held me, his fingers were inserted into my anus. If he has AIDS and there was a bleeding wound on his finger at that time and my anus was bleeding from his fingers, would I be at risk of contracting HIV?
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (finger 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.
The above advice assumes you did not have any clothes on, but I assume that you were wearing swimming clothes so that is even more reason that you couldn't get hiv. Time to move on from hiv fear because there are lots more infectious virus than hiv.
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Many thanks for reply! Unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal means
Sorry the above comment is a mistake.  Thanks for reply! Unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal only involve sex activity with penis involvement, is that right?
Unprotected intercourse = a penis, without a condom, inserted into a vagina or anus.
Thanks!
Hello! Do adults and children have the same ways and probability to acquire HIV? As far as I know, children have weaker immunity than adults.
This would not be a risk for a child either.  Period.  You have to let go of this fear as the answer of no risk whatsoever from a finger in the anus as a child will not change.  
It is dead outside the body, so you are wasting too much energy worrying about this non event.
hiv prevention is straightforward, only 3 ways you can get it, so it is easier to focus on those 3 rather than worrying about the thousands of what-if combinations of events.
Thank you!
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