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Sexual contact w/ partner of unknown hiv status
#185646 - 04/10/06 12:23 PM
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i bet that topic got your attention. i'm trying to give another source for helping the WW's. Honestly i don't think one person that has posted lately has really reasearched anything about hiv aside from ARS. Can't you realize that the posts GMAN is leaving are getting to show his short circuit? I'd hate to see him leave because nobody cares to reasearch this.
When i was in my window aside from having panic attacks, and severe guilt i looked at my states department of health website. there you can find alot of information on hiv, like how many hiv cases are in your county, the highest risk of transmission so on and so forth. typically you'll see the highest risk in men having sex with men, people who have sex with iv drug users and then heterosexual contact. Alright seems simple enough. Now it's time for math. Figure your % chance of just to happen across someone with hiv from the figures given by your state for your county. Chances are it's less than 1% Now imagine your chances of not only coming across a hiv infected person but actually having sex with them. then when you figure in that how hard it is to transmit the virus.....can you see where this is going???? your chances alone are as i saw in another post actually better at hitting a multimillion jackpot in 3 states on the same day.
one more point......if hiv was transmitted near as easy as health class and the media make out, there would be a serious epidemic. i mean WOW it would make the plague look like a weekend at the hilton. if you are in the states be happy, in some areas of africa 1:4 people have hiv....now that's a stat that's disturbing.
take it light,
biker chris
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Your post is very encouraging. And in the grand scheme of things, everything you said is true. "Odds" are....most of us that worry, will turn out to be negative.
Our (or at least speaking for myself, and I think others too) worry isn't about the HIV+ people that each state/county posts in terms of numbers. I think most of us are worried that we got involved with one of the people out there that IS HIV+....but doesn't know it. Thats why HIV is growing at such a rapid rate. Not because of the people that KNOW they have it.....its spreading cause there's so many out there that don't know they have it, yet continue with risky behavior.
and like I said, at least speaking for myself, THAT is my worry. "did I get involved with one of those people that have it...but don't know it"??
Make sense??
My take on things is that for every 4 people that are HIV+ according to a state's department of health there's 1 person out there that has it and doesn't know it.....
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so you take the number of actual cases and multiply it by 4 and then figure the percentage.
yeah i agree the entire what if person. i to went through the window because i thought i hooked up with a what if person. maybe i did, maybe i didn't but i tested negative. my whole point was trying to help people through the window time frame. i wasn't trying to deter testing. i've seen alot of posts on risks, and chances, so i figured offer some stats in there to.
little tangent here, i do and will always express having the elisa test instead of ora this ora that quick this quick that. anything other than a blood drawn elisa in my honest opinion is like taking a knife to a gun fight.
biker chris
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So you're flat out saying the Oraquick isn't as reliable as an ELISA test????
THAT is gonna scare more people than my post about the "what if" person!!!! I thought you just said you were trying to "help" people thru the window time frame!?!!?
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I only use 20 min oral on the mobile testing vans here in Ca, if they come in to the testing center I prefer to use a normal blood test. The quick oral testing has a problem with the people who are giving the tests and not knowing what they are doing, we use dedicated count down timers and as soon as they go off, the test is checked, no later. As in Pinky’s case she talked to the person giving the test for a bit, and then decided to look at the test herself, scaring herself very bad. The window is very small and the line is very easy (not ever faint) to read if someone is actually HIV+, faint line are usually due to something in the persons system interacting which is not HIV. I do support them for mobile testing where the person doesn’t want to have to come to the clinic, but in a clinical environment, no I do not think they should be used due to there high level of giving false positives.
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[quote] I only use 20 min oral on the mobile testing vans here in Ca, if they come in to the testing center I prefer to use a normal blood test. The quick oral testing has a problem with the people who are giving the tests and not knowing what they are doing, we use dedicated count down timers and as soon as they go off, the test is checked, no later. As in Pinky’s case she talked to the person giving the test for a bit, and then decided to look at the test herself, scaring herself very bad. The window is very small and the line is very easy (not ever faint) to read if someone is actually HIV+, faint line are usually due to something in the persons system interacting which is not HIV. I do support them for mobile testing where the person doesn’t want to have to come to the clinic, but in a clinical environment, no I do not think they should be used due to there high level of giving false positives. [/quote]
Thats all I have been tested with...is the Oraquick rapid oral test!! So now should I worry that my negative's....weren't really that?!?!?
I know about the false positives...but I guess I'd rather have those, than false NEGATIVES!!
Other than being in the window period...nothing else would cause a false negative would it!?!?!!??
The FDA says they're reliable....I hope they are.
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They don't give false negatives, only false positives, dude you are fine.
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My take on things is that for every 4 people that are HIV+ according to a state's department of health there's 1 person out there that has it and doesn't know it.....
1 in 3 people that are infected don't know they are infected. That's 33.3 percent of people infected don't know it. Pretty sobering.
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