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HIV a blood borne pathogen?

Hello Doctor

Please tell that I have read that HIV is blood borne pathogen which live in it and can't survive outside of it. And it is also told that semen and Viginal fluid carry HIV which can be transmitted during sex. Is means that semens or viginal fluid , if having blood traces, then these fluid can carry HIV to be transmitted? Or HIV itself can survive in these body fluid?

Please clarify it.
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hiv prevention is straightforward because there are only 3 ways to transmit it. To reduce anxiety, it is simpler to focus on the 3, rather than spend a lot of time studying all the other things that you can think of.
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First, in looking at your previous thread, you had ZERO risk from the exposure you've written. The transmission of HIV takes place inside the body and that is why ONLY unprotected vaginal or anal sex or injections with drug needles that are shared is a risk. blood, semen, vaginal fluid all could be routes of transmission but air inactivates it as does saliva and what you previously described posed ZERO risk.
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