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Hello doctors it's just my concern just wanted to know morning I went to saloon for trimming he popped my pimple with trimmer am worried that if he had already used that trimmer to hiv infected person last night.Will that causes to transmit the hiv virus by dried blood on trimmer
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Rare chances of hiv infection but precautions of new blade must be observed.
But you should not worry much
Get tested Hiv after three months to satisfy yourself
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Dr. Asad Raza
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Even if you are having unprotected sexual intercourse with an HIV positive woman, the chance of contracting HIV is less than one percent. So for your scenario the chance of contracting HIV is zero.
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