Hi,

An incident happened about 5 days ago that is worrying me. I had shaved off some hair from the back of my neck. I did not cut myself but the skin had become red like it sometimes becomes after shaving and it was feeling a little irritated. If I rubbed my fingers over the area it would hurt a little.
I was trying to figure out what happened and so I asked my roommate to check and see if I had got any rashes on my skin. He felt the area with his fingers and said that there was not cut although the skin was reddissh.

I then noticed that my roommate was occasionally rubbing a wound on his arm with his fingers. It was a partially healed open wound that was not actively bleeding at that time. However, if you looked at it you could see that it was reddish and a little bit wet.

I am little bit concerned about this occurance. As my friend was rubbing his wound just before I asked him to examine the skin on my neck (say just 20 seconds before that). Could this be a possible risky situation for HIV transmission? I know about the main ways in which HIV can be transmitted but it can also be transmitted from one wound to another (via blood). Although I am unsure if there would be sufficient blood/fluid in this case.

About my friend I can say is that he is of unknown HIV status. He has been quite careless with some things and I have been urging him from quite some time to get tested but he refuses to do so and continues to remain careless.

Could you please provide your opinion and advise on this as this has started to stress me a lot.

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