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Welcome to the forum. We get several questions a week from people who are concerned about catching HIV from exposure to contaminated objects in the environment -- doorknobs sharp instruments eating utensils or other things that they fear might have HIV infected blood or secretions on them. Our replies are always the same: it simply has never been known to happen not one reported case among the millions of HIV infections worldwide during the 3 decades of the known HIV/AIDS epidemic. The chance an HIV infected person had touched the doorknob in the previous few minutes is low the chance it had blood on it is even lower and the chance HIV could have survived in sufficient quantity to infect you is lower still. That this was in a pharmacy is irrelevant; I doubt the chance that people in pharmacies have HIV is any higher than anyplace else you migth meet people. In other words this was a zero risk event and you should not be at all worried. You do not need testing and if you have a regular sex partner you can safely continue your normal sexual activities without fear of transmitting HIV hepatitis or any other blood borne infection.

2015-04-08 03:11:15

Emma