HIV risk question

[Abelia0909]

Hey guys pleasure to have this form to feeling free to ask but not going to doctor with random questions and keeping my insurance busy .So the other day I went to store and skin around my nail was peeling off I usually cut with nail scissors but I just peeled of and it was stared to bleed a bit it’s super tiny even to stop it at the store I handed my phone to a lady to find the item that i was looking for and she I guess touched my hand by taking it idk if she touch that part that my skin was peeling off so when I checked it was almost drying not bleeding and I used hand sanitizer right after I was leaving the store is it considered as a open wound am I at risk of getting anything like hiv thank you

[AnxiousNoMore]

Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (her fluids, skin, her blood etc. which is not a risk for hiv.) No worries, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv. Analysis of large numbers of infected people over the 40 years of hiv history has proven that people don't get hiv in the way you are worried is a risk.
HIV is a fragile virus in air or saliva and is effectively instantly dead in either air or saliva so the worst that could happen is dead virus rubbed you, and obviously anything which is dead cannot live again so you are good. Blood and cuts would not be relevant in your situation since the hiv has become effectively dead, so you don't have to worry about them to be sure that you are safe.
There is no reason for a person to test when they are safe. The advice took into consideration that the other person might be positive, so move on and enjoy life instead of thinking about this non-event.
The idea that "open wounds" are a transmission point for hiv is incorrect.