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Q: HIV transmission from wound ?
asked by: DoctorQuestion on March 31st, 2009
I was shaving some hair from my neck and grazed a part of my skin. The skin become red and it felt a little irritated. If I rubbed my fingers over the area it would hurt a little. It was not bleeding actively, i.e. when I touched it with my fingers no blood came on my fingers. However, it was grazed and had a few minor scratches (and maybe little cuts like little red lines). I asked my roommate to examine it. He felt the area with his fingers. 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. As my friend was rubbing his wound just before I asked him to examine the skin on my neck. Could this be a risky situation for HIV transmission? My friend 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.


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Dr. Goce Aleksovski , MD
replied on April 1st, 2009
HIV and AIDS Answer A6207



According to the data you provided, there is no chance for HIV transmission if the time between contacts with the wounds was longer than two minutes and the wounds were not bleeding. However, there still might be a small possibility, so you might want to test yourself for HIV.




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ann30303
replied on June 11th, 2009
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have a question for u ok i got a tattoo back in january that got infected and i was smoking with my friend one day who had a cold sore and i didn't notice it and she gave me one and i found out that she has hiv and im very scared but i just took a well i took 3 hiv test one in apri may and now in june and all was negative so should i be worryin anymore are should i go back in july please reply i would greatly appreicate it thanks
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