Glad to be of service. Take care. EWH
Thank you for your reply Dr Edward Hook.
I really needed this advice, because when i was speaking with the HIV councilor they made me think that my risk was far greater than you descibe.
Your forum provides seriously anxcious people to calm down and think of the realalities of their situations or encounters.
Agian thank you and keep up the fantastic service you provide.
Welcome to the Forum. Before I comment on your risk, I must say that two have condoms break more than once during an encounter with a partner is rather unusual and it makes me worry that the condoms you were using were not of good quality. In the future you may wish to use another type of condom. If the condoms were supplied by your partner, in the future you might decide to obtain your own.
Now a comment on your risk. As you probably know, in South Africa the HIV rates are rather high among commercial sex workers. That your partner was insistent on condom use is a good sign and probably indicates that she was working hard to avoid becoming infected by a client. In the situation you describe, in which both you and your partner had negative tests following your sexual encounter, you can be confident that neither of you put the other at risk for HIV and that you need not worry further about it. The theoretical possibility that she was in the process of seroconverting and that she had HIV despite her negative test is extraordinarily low.
Bottom line, based on the fact that you both had negative HIV tests the day following your condom failure, you can be confident that you did not get HIV. i see no medical need for further testing. EWH