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PEP and testing for G-Man
#99949 - 06/15/04 07:56 PM
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G-Man -
I have lifted a quote of yours from another post:
"If you are actually infected the disease will start replicating immediately and that is where ARS comes from in the 2 to 6 week range. The only things that can delay replication is PEP or being under treatment like chemotherapy."
I underwent a 28 day PEP treatment following a high-risk exposure. My doctor, Dr. Bob, and the MAssachusetts HIV Hotline all stated that the PEP program would NOT alter testing guidelines or windows. In fact, if the PEP fails to prevent infection (as in Dr. Bob's case), the individual is likely to experience a normal ARS.
What do you think?
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PEP is not a given that it will delay conversion, it has been known to over some of the many cases of use in a medical environment. I know many of infected medical professionals that it did delay conversion, and a much smaller number that it did not have an effect. But every case I am talking about is a known stick from an infected needle.
Like I have said many time in my posts over the years is that one of the parties has to be infected with HIV and there are only three way to contract the disease. Even with one party being infected it is not a given that the other party will be infected either.
1. Unprotected anal or vaginal sex which vaginal is more of a risk to the female than the mail.
2. The sharing of needles.
3. from mother to nursing infant.
There have been many studies and trials over the years on how HIV is contracted, and furthermore the CDC and the WHO have kept testing records and contraction records over the years.
As long as a person uses a FDA approved HIV test I still agree with the WHO and the CDC in saying that 3mo is conclusive. I feel that it is a good sigh at 6 weeks, but even using an expensive test like a PCR i would take a antibody test at 3months to put to rest your worries of being infected with HIV.
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