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Good evening sir, I am a male 18 years old I went to a barber 4 days before he used an already used blade only in a few area I suddenly noticed and stopped him, he used it after 5 min after the previous one and I got a cut (or may be pimple rupture) should I go for blood test I don't know the previous person having HIV or not, I am in fear of getting HIV AIDS. THANKING YOU PLEASE GIVE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME.
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Hope the other person did not have HIV. Get HIV test done immediately and repeat after 3 months. You can start Post-exposure prophylactic HIV medicines which has to be taken for 1 month. This is freely available at Government health centres.
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Yes, get your HIV test done.
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