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NERVOUS HIV

Hi I am concern about a HIV Transmition via kissing, Ive have read kissing with no blood presence is a NO RISK, but I have some questions,

1) Saliva mixed with blood can be a risk??

2) Ive have read saliva can inactivate HIV Virus, but Saliva inactivate the virus inmediately???

3) Also while open mouth kissing blood is "outside" the body and be inactivated by air??? While kissing blood can be outside the host for a very short period of time and be mixed with saliva, can virus remain active after that exposure??

4) Can a bleeding gum or minor mouth injury be a port of entry to the bloodstream for blood mixed with saliva??

In my exposure I was not exposed to DIRECT BLOOD, I may expose to Saliva mixed with blood,

Thanks in advance,

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Thanks for your response,

Ive been anxious cause I have bleeding gums problems,  
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Your only problem is dental.
Thanks!!
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Ever hear of anyone getting HIV from kissing? No, and below are the reasons.
You had no risk and testing will 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, 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. 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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