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Is this an acute HIV infection?

Hey,
I'm a 20 year old guy in egypt, I have had anxiety for the past month or so as I was having sex (with another guy) and he made the top tip of my penis touch his hole (didn't go in). I've always used condoms and practiced safe sex, always been the top (giver) not the recipient, the guy wasnt HIV positive as far as he knows
That contact happened on March 7th, so more than a month now.
I recently got this fever which I know is a clear sign so I got super scared, but it turned out to be a streptoccocal infection (pus is very clear on tonsils), also it was very responsive to antibiotics and the fever came down.
I know I can only be sure when I get tested but I get panic attacks a lot and I confuse things easily... is it possible that the acute HIV infection happened simultaneously with the strep infection?
Bare in mind as well that the fever came down taking paracetamol and the laryngitis and acute sinusitis got better with me taking antibiotic (cefadroxil 1gm) twice daily. No rash was present and I always practice safe sex (with condoms as protection)
Please give me some peace of mind because this could be punishable by law in my country.
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Since you always used condom then you really never had any real risk for hiv.
Also you have so much anxiety comming to post in this forum and the only way to calm things down is to take a 4th generation test now since its a month ago since ur sexual encounter.
I am sure it will be negative since u never really had any real risk
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I'm really appreciative of this thank you so so sooo much.
The time the tip of my penis touches his hole was unprotected though which is why I am asking.
But thank you again so much
You had no HIV risk because you didn't penetrate his anus so a test will be a waste of time.   The first step to peace is to stop Googling for HIV symptoms cold turkey and to stop analyzing your body looking for symptoms.

HIV is instantly inactivated in air and also in saliva which means it is effectively dead so it can't infect from touching, external 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, external rubbing or oral activities. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established so there is no detail that you can add that will make any of your encounter a risk for HIV.  No one in 40 years of HIV history got HIV from the situation you are concerned about so it is unlikely that it will happen in the next 40 of your lifetime either.
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