Do You Get An Hiv Test If You Are Arrested

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Prosecuting HIV: Take the Test -- and Risk Arrest?

Imagine meeting someone online, having a nice chat, and then deciding to hook up. You have HIV, but you're adherent to your meds and have had an undetectable viral load for years. You and your sexual partner use a condom. Sometime later, the partner... Read more »

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Human Rights Watch: Arrests, Trials of HIV-Positive Men in Egypt Reflect Ignorance, Injustice

Today, Human Rights Watch called on Egyptian authorities to stop criminalizing AIDS. New York-based HRW also urged the country to overturn the convictions of four men sentenced for habitual practices of debauchery, a term used for consensual... Read more »

Mubarak's AIDS Legacy: Torture, Deportation and Arrest for HIV-Positive People

Would a new government mean more rights for people with HIV? In Egypt, the victims of Hosni Mubarak's 30-year autocratic rule haven't just been government dissenters -- they've also been people living with HIV. While receiving a hefty amount... Read more »

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hiv meds and cardiac arrest

hi is there a direct link with the use of HIV meds and cardiac arrest?...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Unlikely. However, some HIV meds could affect the blood levels and therefore effect of certain cardiac meds, thus increasing their possibility of toxicity.... Read more »

Can Prescription Drugs or Supplements, Vitamins effect HIV Test Results?

Hi Dr. Bob,I sent you an e-mail last week. I'm the one who performed CPR on the AIDS Victim at an accident scene. I performed the CPR on July 25th and went to my health department on October 25th ( exactly 3 months ) to have the blood test...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello CPR Lady,Your fears continue to be unwarranted and irrational. There is no reason to second guess your definitively negative HIV-antibody test results. Neither vitamins nor medications to treat shingles will affect the validity of your... Read more »

pos. person on meds testing neg. possible? (HIV ANTIBODY TEST VERSUS HIV VIRAL LOAD TEST)

Hi Dr. Bob. First thank you for all your generous answers. My question is:If someone is on meds for hiv(any, not specific)and their v.l. is undetectable, how possible is it they can go down to the local health department and test negative? Thanks...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello m. p.,How possible is it that an HIVer on antiretroviral medications that have driven his HIV plasma viral load to undetectable levels will test "HIV negative" (HIV-antibody negative) at his local health department? The answer is it... Read more »

HIV Test validity (Geodesic Meditech HIV TEST YOURSELF test kit )

Doctor, either a valid test needs to be made available to the public otherwise people will use other means. Im convinced on this .... its time the government gets with the program and makes FDA approved tests available, otherwise people will use...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,"Home Access Express Test" is the only FDA-approved HIV home test kit available (so far). Blood is obtained by lancet and a filter strip with blotted blood is mailed in a protected envelope using an anonymous code. The tests utilize... Read more »

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another hiv related arrest

Posted by alive2, 1 Reply

another man in wny is caught spreading hiv knowingly having sexual conact without protection. this seems that it will further stigmatize hiv/aids to society.
here is another prime reason abstinence only doesnt work. comprehensive education must be in... Read more »

Testing for Hiv-accuracy of test after Exposure!!!

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Anyone please help with this one!! IF you had a possible exposure to Hiv, how long Before Tests will pick up the infection, and how accurate are the rapid Hiv tests against the Elisa tests? If you are Elisa negative at 8 weeks after infection and 12... Read more »

HIV tests that detect the genetic material of HIV

Posted by nomoreworry4me

HIV tests that detect the genetic material of HIV itself (rather than antibodies or antigens) are known as PCR tests. PCR stands for Polymerase Chain Reaction and is a common way of testing for a variety of different organisms. The overall process... Read more »

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