A member asked:

Person with hiv is talking and their saliva hits your face or in your eye can it be transmitted that way? no open cuts on face but in the eye??

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Dr. Hunter Handsfield answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

No risk, no worry: There has never been a case of HIV acquiring by such an exposure. And if you think about it, there must have been millions of such exposures. Saliva does not transmit HIV; in fact, saliva kills the virus. This is one reason why oral sex almost never is risky for HIV. Don't worry about it.

Answered 8/21/2019

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