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HIV risk?

Hi, So a few days ago me and one of my friends were sitting across from each other. My friend started laughing intensely and a lot of her spit sprayed my face right under my eye. I am not sure if any of the spit went into my eyes (since I was wearing glasses) or in to my mouth, although it probably did. I also don't know if there was any blood in her spit. I did my research online and found out that once a bodily fluid is exposed to the air it becomes non transmissible was the millisecond it took for her saliva to hit my face enough for the virus to die? Can hiv be airborne? I also saw that hiv can enter through mucous membranes and pimples. Could the virus have entered through my eyes (no visible cuts) or pimples? I also read that there is a substance in saliva that makes hiv harder to transmit, is that also true? From my incident, is there a risk for hiv and please explain if there is not. Thank you for your time.
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You had no risk and a test would be a waste of time.

HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, rubbing or oral activities. It doesn't matter if you and they were actively bleeding or had cuts at the time either because the HIV is effectively dead.  

Only adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex
3. sharing needles that you inject with. Knowing these 3 are all you need to know to protect yourself against HIV. Your situation is a long way from any of these 3.
Even with blood, lactation, cuts, rashes, burns, etc the air or the saliva does not allow inactivated virus to infect from touching or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established.
No one got HIV from touching, rubbing or oral activities in 40 years of HIV history, so likely no one will in the next 40 years of your life either. If it was as easy to contract as you fear we would all have it like we get colds, from infected people who cough.
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