This happen last Sunday 

Okay so I have as at church and we have a guest preacher who used to be in jail and on drugs but had since found the lord, well the sermon was going on and on and I got bored and started picking at my nails, I made the one bleed because I pulled a piece of skin, well a few mins late the sermon ended and I shook his hand along with a couple others. Well later on I found out that he is hiv positive, though I am not sure if he had any cuts currently on his hands, ugh now I am worried I could have gotten hiv, I have two young kids and a wife and I would be destroyed to bring hiv into our family, I am wondering how risky this event was for me getting hiv and when I can get tested, some websites say a week and others say 6 months, I am trying to get past this as soon and possible and find out if I did get hiv from this handshake. Thank you doctors

Nobody in the world ever has caught HIV from the sort of contact you describe. HIV simply is not transmitted by non-intimate personal contact with HIV infected persons. For example, household contacts of HIV infected persons never become infected even after several years of shared toilets, eating utensils, non-sexual hugs and kisses, treating their kids' skinned knees, or another contact you can think of (not counting sexual contact, of course). You should not be tested on account of this hand shake or any other non-intimate contact you might have with the preacher (or any other HIV infected person).

I hope these comments are helpful. Let me know if anything isn't clear.

HHH, MD