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contact with hiv's blood

I met a friend and he has hiv,there is a little wound on his hand with dried blood,and i shaked hand with him,and hug him,and Help him to cover the quilt(there is dried blood on it),there is some  abrasions on my fingers,is there any chance i will get hiv infected?
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thanks for ur answer,and i want to ask more,does the virus died as soon as they were outside the body?like the clothes and his travel luggage,because i may be broken my skin by his luggage
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Hello, doctors and epidemiologists around the world overwhelmingly agree that HIV is only transmitted by unprotected vaginal or anal penetrative sex, sharing needles or mother to child.

Small cuts and wounds so common in everybody's hands are not a viable entry point for HIV, which is very fragile outside human body, only a fresh, open and actively bleeding cut would pose any risk.

You weren't at any risk.
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