How long does HIV live in blood and for how long is HIV positive blood still infectious?

Does anyone know how long HIV can live in blood if the blood is dried on a bandaid? After the blood has dried, Is it still infectious? If you stepped on a bandaid or touched one and came into contact with the dried blood, what are your chances of exposure to the virus if hue blood is HIV positive?

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If you mean Blood that is outside of the body, the virus dies upon contact to air. While teh blood may still be wet, the virus will stay alive for a few minutes maybe alittle longer but it dies outside of the body, within minutes. if you contacted dried blood that WAS HIV+, you would have no change of contracting it. The dried blood on teh bandaid is non infectious.

On average, HIV can survive outside of the body for only a few hours. I would imagine that by the time the blood was dry, there's probably a 99% chance that any virus present would be dead and unable to cause infection.

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