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Hiv testing effectiveness please answer quick
#43952 - 11/15/02 04:42 AM
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I just found out the tests I've been taking are called Hiv chromotography, are these as sensitive as the elisa method?
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never heard of it. sorry...
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Popular Science article
Popular Science: How a 99.99% Accurate Test Can Be Wrong HALF the Time
An article in the July 2002 issue of Popular Science magazine with no risk factors. Here1s
the text from page 78: HIV testing is 99.99 percent accurate, a doctor might tell his
patient. That suggests that if you receive a positive result, you almost certainly have
HIV. But this is not necessarily the case.
The chance of a straight man with no known risk factors
contracting HIV is roughly one in 10,000. That is also the rate at which an HIV test
returns an incorrect result. So if 10,000 men in this low-risk group get tested for HIV,
an average one positive will come back from the man with HIV, and another man will test
positive even though he is not infected. Thus, in our statistically perfect world, only
one of the two men who test positive actually has HIV. 50 percent of positive HIV tests in
the low-risk group turn out to be false.(2)
The article incorrectly assumes that HIV tests can diagnose HIV infection and that the
claimed accuracy rate of 99.99% has been established through careful scientific studies.
In fact, HIV tests have NOT been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use
in diagnosing HIV infection, and all claims of test accuracy are based on estimates and
assumptions.
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in the past month you've posted that article at least 20 times. What's wrong with you? Do you not have a voice or opinion that you can only repost articles like a parrot? Since you have to know we're not interested, and you're not wanted on this board, why would you keep posting the same articles over and over? Is it to keep from feeling bad about something? What are you trying to do for yourself by persisting? Remove the guilt for infecting others? Remove the guilt you have for murder? Does this really help you feel better?
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Liar
#44011 - 11/15/02 09:50 PM
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http://www.fda.gov/cber/products/testkits.htm
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Testing
#44030 - 11/16/02 01:09 AM
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You'll find lots of great information about HIV testing at the following section:
http://www.thebody.com/testing.html
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Ignore these dissidents. They know nothing and having nothing to do but post here and waste everyone's time.
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It is in the July issue. Leave me an e-mail address and I will send over a scan or check at your public library.
It is no longer on line at: -
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/search/results?query=HIV&config=popsci
I just checked. Find any article or reference about the FDA approving the Elisa and W.Blot test.
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go to the FDA Q&A forum. They recomend ELISA testing to determine HIV status. They also will tell you the benifits and side effects of the HIV meds.
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Moron
#44157 - 11/17/02 06:45 PM
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I posted the link to the FDA website where they list the approved HIV tests.
http://www.fda.gov/cber/products/testkits.htm
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (Anti-HIV-1 Assay)
16 approved tests with approval dates from 1986.
For a liar you sure are a stupid one.
I have the popular science article. It does not support your Denialist crap.
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