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Can a person contract hiv if male just place the penis on the vagina but never went in?

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Dr. James Burns answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

If brief: Contact without open areas of skin and no body fluid discharge or exchange then risk is very, very low. Better to ask yourself why you would take that kind of chance knowingly with an HIV positive individual.

Dr Fowler agreed

Answered 6/10/2014

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