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I have keratolysis on my feet and my friend who is hiv positive was helping me to scratch it, though blood did not come out but it's paining me, if she has blood on his nails, am I at risk?
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (clothing, blood,  fluids, skin 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.
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Thanks for the answer but the scratch was deep but blood did not come out, but it's paining me, what if she burst pimples first and used the same hand to scratch me?
You CANNOT get HIV from your friend, unless you are having unprotected intercourse with this friend, or unless you share intravenous needles with this friend.
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