HIV infection? after a Brazilian waxing session

Dear Ask The Doctor: I'm a 26 year-old female. I got brazilian waxing in a salon yesterday. Everythig was clean but the lady who applied the wax on my skin used the same pot(that she had used for the previous client) for heating the wax. Since I bled a little during the process of waxing, is it possible that I have caught any infections especially HIV. The thing that worries me is that the previous client (who got waxing five minutes earlier)might have bled and her contaminated blood might have remained in the pot. Please help me because I do not want to pass any infections to my husband. Thanks in advance.

Dear Tary: The following factors are associated with an increased risk of acquiring HIV infection: Unprotected sex, receptive anal intercourse carries a particularly high risk, injection drug use (sharing needles or drug paraphernalia), occupational needle stick or body fluid splash (estimated transmission rate <0.3%), contaminated blood products (before 1985 in the United States). As you see the risk of transmission in the way that you described is extremely low. Every salon has to follow standard  hygienic, sterilization measures. The HIV virus needs to be inside the white cells and use their internal structures to replicate and survive. No sooner the body fluid containing the HIV virus starts to dry, 90% to 99% of the virus present becomes disabled upon drying. The HIV virus is very fragile when is outside the human body, like on the floor or on an outer surface and is not likely to survive an important amount of time in outside world. The only studies on the survival of HIV outside the body have been done in the laboratory under controlled scientific conditions. These studies have shown that HIV is not affected by extreme cold, but it is destroyed by temperatures of 60 degrees centigrade and above, detergents or disinfectants (bleach). In HIV contaminated blood when store in blood banks at 4 C , the virus may live no longer than 3 weeks or until the white cells fade away, maybe in frozen state could survive for years. The virus does not spread through casual contact such as preparing food, sharing towels and bedding, or via swimming pools, telephones, or toilet seats. The virus is also unlikely to be spread by contact with saliva, unless it is contaminated with blood.