Your risk is just extraordinarily, incredibly, amazingly, unbelievably low.
I'll put it this way: if you have vaginal sex with an infected source, your chance of getting HIV is about 1 in 1000. (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5402a1.htm#tab1) Focus on that statistic for a moment: even if he definitely had HIV, and you had vaginal intercourse with him, your risk of getting HIV from that one act would be incredibly tiny.
Now, not only did you not have penetrative vaginal intercourse with him, but you do not know if he is HIV positive.
Although statistics on HIV rates vary significantly by area, in the developed world (like the United States and Canada), for the most part HIV infection is very rare -- especially if the person in question doesn't fall into certain higher-risk categories, i.e. intravenous drug users or men who have anal sex with men. Basically, if you take a random individual in the developed world, the chance that they have HIV is extremely small.
So in short -- as you know, you took an HIV test far too early to tell -- most people (http://www.hivtest.org/subindex.cfm?FuseAction=faq#exposure) will develop testable antibodies within 2-8 weeks (the average time to detectable antibodies is 25 days).
However, your individual risk of getting HIV from a single instance of non-penetrative intercourse with a partner who you do not know their STI status (and thus, statistically, is very unlikely to be HIV positive) is incredibly tiny. Just extremely, extraordinarily remote.
I hope this helps. I of course do not want to minimize how awful HIV is, and I certainly believe in taking all steps to protect one's self from HIV transmission. At the same time, the facts about HIV rates and transmission rates in the developed world tell us that any single given sexual encounter is statistically incredibly unlikely to lead to HIV infection.
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Date: 2008-05-04 09:57 pm (UTC)I'll put it this way: if you have vaginal sex with an infected source, your chance of getting HIV is about 1 in 1000. (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5402a1.htm#tab1) Focus on that statistic for a moment: even if he definitely had HIV, and you had vaginal intercourse with him, your risk of getting HIV from that one act would be incredibly tiny.
Now, not only did you not have penetrative vaginal intercourse with him, but you do not know if he is HIV positive.
Although statistics on HIV rates vary significantly by area, in the developed world (like the United States and Canada), for the most part HIV infection is very rare -- especially if the person in question doesn't fall into certain higher-risk categories, i.e. intravenous drug users or men who have anal sex with men. Basically, if you take a random individual in the developed world, the chance that they have HIV is extremely small.
So in short -- as you know, you took an HIV test far too early to tell -- most people (http://www.hivtest.org/subindex.cfm?FuseAction=faq#exposure) will develop testable antibodies within 2-8 weeks (the average time to detectable antibodies is 25 days).
However, your individual risk of getting HIV from a single instance of non-penetrative intercourse with a partner who you do not know their STI status (and thus, statistically, is very unlikely to be HIV positive) is incredibly tiny. Just extremely, extraordinarily remote.
I hope this helps. I of course do not want to minimize how awful HIV is, and I certainly believe in taking all steps to protect one's self from HIV transmission. At the same time, the facts about HIV rates and transmission rates in the developed world tell us that any single given sexual encounter is statistically incredibly unlikely to lead to HIV infection.