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Hello,
I recently had an encounter with a female, not sexual intercourse, but with my fingers.
However, 2 days before the encounter i had a slight paper cut on my palms from a knife in the kitchen, it had started to dry up(was not bleeding anymore and had little to no pain) the day i had the encounter.
B on mefore i had the encounter i had a plaster over the paper cut, about 3 minutes after the encounter(i assume the sexual fluid had dried up on my fingers but not 100% sure) i walked up to the bathroom to wash my fingers with soap and warm water. However after doing so i noticed some water spills on the plaster, i removed the plaster to see if it was water proof and noticed some water on the paper cut on my palms, i was wondering if there is a risk of the dried up fluid from my finger mixing with the water from the tap and somehow and getting into the paper cut? a reply will be very much appreciated thank you.

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Hello John,

An 2 day old "paper cut" is not a sufficient entry point for HIV in order to transmit. No one has ever been infected from the incident as my limited literature search reveals.

Again, in the later scenario, dried out fluid (vaginal in your case) can not transmit HIV, since HIV is a very fragile virus and lives fairly shorter period outside receptor and in open air.

So, you're risk free.

Take care of yourself and my apologies for being late.

Regards,
Gorkey

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Gorkey Gourab

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Social and behavioral issues related to HIV transmission, sexually transmitted infections, Human Rights issues, rights of marginalized populations, gender and sexuality, research design and analysis related social & behavioral issues, , computer assisted qualitative data analysis and data management (using ATLAS.ti, ANTHROPAC, NVivo 8)

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Specialized in Medical Anthropology. Working on Social and behavioral studies related to HIV transmission as well as Human Rights issues. Specialization in gender, sexuality, masculinity, behavioral studies related to HIV transmission. Qualitative research, programmatic and M&E experience with MSM, hijra (TG), indigenous groups, female sex workers for more than 7 years.

Organizations
International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) as Manager - M&E (Qualitative) with Center for HIV and AIDS

Publications
International peer-reviewed journals & technical papers: (1) Khan, S. I., Hussain, M. I., Parveen, S., Bhuiyan, M. I., Gourab, G., & Bhuiya, A. (2009). Living on the extreme margin: Social exclusion of the hijra in Bangladesh. Journal of health, population and nutrition. (2) Khan, S. I., Hussain, M. I., Gourab, G., Parveen, S., Bhuiyan, M. I., & Sikder, J. (2008). Not to stigmatize but to humanize sexual lives of the transgender (hijra): condom chat in the AIDS era. Journal of LGBT Health Research (Special issue: issues on male sexual behaviors and HIV risk in South Asia). Working papers: (1) Khan, S. I., Gourab, G., Ahmed, T., Sarker, G. F., Chowdhury, F. K., Ghosh, S., et al. (2009). Understanding the operational dynamics and possible HIV interventions for residence-based female sex workers in two divisional cities in Bangladesh. Dhaka, Bangladesh: NASP, Save the Children USA and icddr,b. Presentations in scientific meetings and conferences: (1) Khan, S. I., Hussain, M. I., Gourab, G. & Azim, T. (2011, 16 March 2011). Use of a new approach to count and access diverse groups of hijra for scaling up HIV-preventions services in Bangladesh. Poster presented at the 13th Annual Scientific Conference (ASCON XIII), Dhaka. (2) Khan, S. I., Pasa, K., Gourab, G., & Islam, A. (2007). Indigenous populations of Bangladesh: Living with risks and vulnerabilities to STIs/HIV. 8th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP). Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Education/Credentials
MSS (Anthropology), University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Awards and Honors
The Vanderbilt-UAB Fogarty International Center AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP)Scholarship for the training on HIV-AIDS related qualitative data analysis and manuscript writing (Center for Global Health, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA)

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