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Can you get hiv from touching a used bandaid with no blood on it and then touching your lips? it happened in september, a little girl scrapped her knee and needed a bandaid. i have her one and she kept taking it off so it never stuck. she ended up ha
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Little if any risk: It takes a lot more blood exposure than this to have any HIV risk -- even if the child had HIV (which is extremely unlkely unless this happened in an area with high HIV frequency, like southern Africa).
Answered 1/16/2020
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