i touched a womans vagina and her clitoris with my hand no insertion she turned out to be hiv positive i just found out the thing is i had a small abrasion on my palm it was a day or more old where a little bit of the top layer of skin was removed and it created a flap where you pull it back a little but otherwise the majority of the skin was intact any way the cut was under the skin not on top blood was not coming out but i could see the blood had clotted under the skin surface does this look like a way for hiv transmission to occur did my skin protect m eif any of her fluids got near it

Home / Answered Questions / i touched a womans vagina and her clitoris with my hand no insertion she turned out to be hiv positive i just found out the thing is i had a small abrasion on my palm it was a day or more old where a little bit of the top layer of skin was removed and it created a flap where you pull it back a little but otherwise the majority of the skin was intact any way the cut was under the skin not on top blood was not coming out but i could see the blood had clotted under the skin surface does this look like a way for hiv transmission to occur did my skin protect m eif any of her fluids got near it

i touched a womans vagina and her clitoris with my hand no insertion she turned out to be hiv positive i just found out the thing is i had a small abrasion on my palm it was a day or more old where a little bit of the top layer of skin was removed and it created a flap where you pull it back a little but otherwise the majority of the skin was intact any way the cut was under the skin not on top blood was not coming out but i could see the blood had clotted under the skin surface does this look like a way for hiv transmission to occur did my skin protect m eif any of her fluids got near it

There are no documented cases of HIV being passed through this kind of contact. It is considered negligible risk but it is not considered zero risk. This is because it is possible for HIV to be passed through open skin. From what you describe, it sounds like your skin had healed over. If that is accurate, then there should be no risk that you will get HIV.

If you continue to be worried about this, you might want to go for testing. Testing is really the only way to know for sure. The HIV tests we use in BC are 95% accurate at 6 weeks after contact.

Check out our clinic finder for STI clinics in BC.

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Health Nurse

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This answer was posted on February 1, 2014.

This answer was updated on February 7, 2022.

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