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Worry of getting Hiv by blood collective device

Hello expert,

How are you?
Please help me to access my case:
Yesterday, i came to an small clinic for HIV test.
The people there using blood collective device with only a sharp needle, no syringe. He used sharp needle to prickle my finger and took the blood from there.
The problem is that device is not seal & nothing cover the needle.
So i worry:
- for any reason, the blood from hiv positive people still in the needle, and then it going to my body when the doctor use the device to take my blood??
Am in risk of HIV? Do i need to take PEP?
Thank you in advance for take care my case.
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Hello Expert,

Thank you for concern my case.
I worry because it is a small clinic, the doctor even dont wear doctor uniform.

I anxious because that clinic specific for HIV people treatment, who dont want to go to hospital. They got a lot of profit from HIV possitive people by selling medicine for HIV possitive people.

Please expert, please explain to me whether i had a risk if the needle (without syringe) which still have positive hiv blood prickle into my finger??

Really thank you very much
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This answers all of your HIV questions, and if you can think of any more just reread about the 3. You had zero risk therefore  testing is irrelevant to your situation because you had zero risk. HIV is a fragile virus, which 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 3 adult risks are the following:
1. unprotected penetrating vaginal with a penis
2. unprotected penetrating anal sex with a penis
3. sharing needles that you inject with.
The only way to get HIV is if you did one of the 3. The situation you describe 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. Doctors have calculated the risk from what you describe to be less than that of being hit by a meteor, therefore no one will get HIV from what you did in the next 40 years of your life either. The above HIV science is 40 years old and very well established, so no detail that you can add to your encounter will change it from zero risk.
Your needle test wasn't injecting, so you are 100% safe.
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The first thing you need to accept is that no clinic gives patients hiv.
You don't have any medical training, but you feel the device the clinic uses is poorly designed and could give you a disease like hiv. That idea is obviously wrong, because clinics aren't dumb enough to take risks like that with their patients. You should move on from hiv fears, because the medical industry has thought of avoiding this risk long ago, probably before you were even born, so it is all taken care of and you are safe. If it wasn't safe, then doctors and nurses would not work there.
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