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Wart on finger and hiv risk

I fingered a sexworker's vagina using glove. When removing the glove with the other hand, i touched the tip of glove where am 99 percent sure there were no vaginal fluids. But i have a wart on a finger in that hand which i used to remove the glove. I am paranoid about getting hiv, since there were many info about how genital warts are so receptive to hiv virus. I washed my hands with soap immediately. Now after one week , am getting fever cold headache. Am very much stressed about whether some hiv get sucked in through that wart in my finger. I lived with a hiv infected father for 10 years, now he died. I am so much worried. This is one tym i tried to have sexual contact. Iam 33 years old. Avoided sex due to fear of hiv. Wanted to feel how a vagina feels like. So tried this. Never had penetrative sex. Somebody  experts pls throw some clarity.
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Your situation involves personal contact with an object in air  (blood, maybe saliva,  etc. ). You will be happy to learn that you had no risk, because you can't get hiv from personal contact except unprotected penetrating vaginal or anal with a penis, neither of which you did and you didn't share hollow needles to inject with which is the only other way to acquire hiv - there are only 3 ways to get 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. hiv prevention is straightforward since there are only 3 ways you can become infected, so next time you wonder if you had a risk, ask yourself this QUESTION. "Did I do any of the 3?" Then after you say "No, I didn't" you will know that it's time to move on back to your happy life.
No one got hiv from what you did during 40 years of hiv history and no one will get it in the next 40 years of your life either.  You can do what you did any time and be safe.

You should stop Googling the silly idea that people get hiv from warts and that dead "hiv got sucked into your body" . You should have realized after 10 years of living with an hiv pos father that it isn't spread by touching because I'm doubting that he washed his fingers every time before he touched things.
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