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sex with hiv carrier

thanks for your help!My problem is that I had sex with a sex worker on 7.4, and after the test, it was found that she was a HIV carrier, and she was strongly positive, and she was not taking medication. I used a condom throughout the intercourse, but when I pulled it out, I found her vaginal bleeding, her blood was on the condom, and my pubic hair was also stained with her blood. I only noticed semen still in the condom, not sure if the condom was damaged. At the same time my penis came in contact with her blood while I was wiping it off with a wet tissue. Is there a risk of infection by my actions?

I took blocking medication at the 23rd hour. After taking the drug for a full 28 days, the ab/ag test was negative on the day of drug withdrawal (August 1). On August 6, the ab/ag test was negative again.
Since I had diarrhea on August 8th, I was worried that the blocking would fail, so I decided to seek help.
How soon can I rule out the risk of infection?
thanks for your help! I wish you good health and a happy life!
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The doc who gave you medication should have ruled out infection as soon as you saw him.

Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (blood,  fluids contact outside body with penis,  etc. ). You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are ONLY 3 ways to get hiv. Note that 2 of them require a penis and the third requires a hollow injecting shared needle - there are no OTHER ways to get 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 advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either.  You can do what you did any time and be safe from hiv.
The other person's status is irrelevant when you have no exposure to live virus.
You can't get hiv when you use a condom because only the head of the penis needs protection and that happened. If a condom fails it rips down the seam so obviously that didn't happen or it would be hard to take off. The medication was a waste of time to take since you had no risk. Billions of negative person like you get have diarrhea so you should stop wasting any more time thinking about hiv.
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