Risk of Getting HIV from Massage parlor

[sam96728]

Hi
I am male 30 Year old from Dubai, I visited a massage parlor recently, The place was not clean even the towel which I lay down about an hour.The massager was a lady , With her panties she never removed her panties even during the massage, end of the massage she offered a hand job with quantum, She put the quantum and given the hand job before doing hand job she applied massage lotion on her hand  , She never touched on my penis without quantum, But I touched her vagina top of her panties , when I touched there I feel she was wearing a pads and I asked her why she said she was on periods, Immediately, I withdraw my hand from top of the panties and I didn't fell any blood touched on my finger,I never put my hands inside her vagina, panties or pads,also I have scratch on my elbow which was happened day before from the sharp edge of my table top, No blood was bleeding from the scratch ,
My Questions are
1, Am I exposed to HIV From the Above incident.
2, When I touched her vagina top of panties and the pads of the other side have menstrual Blood / Massaging her Brest, is it possible way to transmission,I had small cracks and cuts on my finger
3, When I laid down on the Towel is it possible way I could get HIV, if the previous customer was HIV positive and his blood or body fluids drop on the towel which will in contact with my circumcised penis or  the scratch on the elbow which was fairly new.
I know my questions may feel stupidity but anxiety drives me crazy.

[Edward W Hook, MD]

Welcome to our Forum.  I see you have asked the same questions on the HIV Community site and on the International HIV Forum.  I agree with the information that has been provided to on the Community site and suspect you will get a similar answer from the International Forum.  You are not at any risk at all from the activities that you describe.  HIV is spread through genital an ano-genital intercourse and through introduction of infected materials deep into tissue.  It is not spread on inanimate objects (like towels), through touching, through kissing, or through mutual masturbation in which partners get each others' genital secretions on one another.  This is true even if there are small cuts and abrasions present on the skin.  Having provided these generalizations, I will not directly answer your specific questions- these will essentially repeat what I've just said above.  Before I do however, I should also point out that it is unlikely that your masseuse had HIV.

1.  No, you were not exposed.
2.  No, HIV is not spread by touching, even with cuts or cracks on your finger.
3.  No, HIV is not spread on towels or other inanimate objects.

I hope my comments are helpful to you.  EWH

[Edward W Hook, MD]

You don't seem to believe me or my advice.  I will answer this and that will be the last answer.  You are obviously looking for answers on the internet. As I said, you will find more misinformation there than useful information.

HIV's survival outside of the body depends on the conditions.  Even in the body, under good conditions, it survives less than 1 hour.  Outside of the body it lives minutes, at most and this is just one of the reasons that HIV is not spread by inanimate objects.

HIV would die if mixed with water as well.

This ends this thread. EWH

[sam96728]

Thanks for your reply, Just to my own knowledge Will HIV will survive out side body if so how much time I read some one saying only few minutes (Less than 3 Minutes), Few seconds and Some one saying may be in week,Also if HIV infected blood will come in mix with water or any other kind liquid HIV will die at that second is that true ?

[Edward W Hook, MD]

There are many incorrect rumoprs about how HIV is spread.  You have nothing to worry about. EWH

[sam96728]

Thanks for your comments, I put this question here I didn't get response from HIV International forum, and I was so much in tensed, "Introduction of infected material deep in to tissue " means like syringe ?I just want to clarify and am reading articles about HIV transmission as I was unaware about the mode of transmission and all. I just heard before even it can be passed from wound to wound , like some one wound touching on the wound which we have.etc,