HIV from prostitute with blood exposure.

Hello.  I am very scared.  I had sex (protected) with a prostitute.  I did not ejaculate.  When we were done she took off the condom and began to give me a hand job with vaseline.  I noticed she had several cuts on her hand which began to bleed and so I stopped her.  She got blood on the head of my uncut penis.  I wiped it off and asked her if she had any diseases and she told me that she had HIV, but that I didn't have to worry because we wore a condom, BUT she got BLOOD on the glans (glands) of my penis.  She was also touching my anus, but I don't know whether or not blood got on that.  She did not finger me, she only touched it.  I'm scared to death because she told me that she has HIV.  What are the chances that I too now have HIV?  Please let me know soon.

[Teak]

None, you never had a risk.

[hmmjett]

That feels good to hear, but how so?

[ricky_id]

Because HIV immediately gets neutralised by the air.

[hmmjett]

Thanks for the reply, but could the virus be destroyed that quickly?  It was blood from an open cut onto the head and foreskin of my penis directly.

[Teak]

HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions; therefore, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.

[ricky_id]

Yes, because HIV virus is fragile in nature.

[hmmjett]

It makes sense, but I've also read from HIV sites that the virus can live for several minutes outside of the body in blood. I'm nervous about this.

[ricky_id]

Live, perhaps. But it loses ability to reproduce RIGHT AWAY after exposure with the air.