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Hiv Takes How Much Time
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Ask the Experts
Taking the HIV for the First time at age 40Doctor since I have never tested for HIV and want to test would a elisa test be the test to take even if I was infected 15 years ago ? would it pick up the antibodies 15 years later ?...
Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.
Stanford University, School of Medicine
An HIV antibody ELISA test would be the test to get....
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HIV test taking a long time to show positive resultI'm not sure this is the right forum, but I couldn't find any other that's more... Read more »Time it takes to become HIV infectorThe scenario: If I get infected by the HIV virus today, how long it takes to start... Read more »
Articles
New York Times Examines Efforts to Reduce Number of HIV-Positive Patients in Africa Who Stop Taking Their MedicationsIn a first-person account in the New York Times , David Tuller of the University of California, Berkeley, writes of his experience shadowing a counselor with Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES), an organization in Kisumu, Kenya, that... Read more »
Good Antidepressant Pill-Taking Linked to Better Antiretroviral Pill-TakingIn a study of U.S. veterans with HIV infection and depression, people who took antidepressant drugs according to schedule (good adherence) also took their antiretrovirals according to schedule most of the time. 1 This finding is important because... Read more »
Time Between Initial HIV Infection and AIDS is Not Symptom-FreeIf left untreated, HIV infection inevitably degrades the immune system, leading to the development of life-threatening infections -- AIDS -- about 10 years later. The time between initial HIV infection and the development of AIDS is commonly... Read more »
HIV and the Kidneys -- A Look Over TimeTo get an idea of what effect HIV infection has on the kidneys, researchers in the United States and European Union have been conducting studies. One American study is called FRAM -- Fat Redistribution and Metabolic change in HIV infection.... Read more »
Connect With Others
How long does the HIV test take?
Posted by missing, 1 Reply
It has been a week and I am still waiting for the result. I thought ELISA is a quick test? Does that means my blood has to go through Western Blot........... I know ELISA can produce false positive but that small 1% chance doesn't seems very...
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HIV from one-time sex?
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
I want to know how many women contract HIV from having sex with a + person only a few times. I know it is possible, but I've heard it usually takes repeated exposure to the virus to contract the disease (unless the couple engages in higher-risk...
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HIV ANTI-BODY TEST & THE WINDOW PERIOD TIME FRAME
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
Good Day,Here's what the nation's leading authority on HIV testing has to say about the HIV anti-body test and the time it takes to detect infection. Oh, and let us not bastardize this information to sooth our worries. The CDC (Center for Disease... Read more » Diagnosed with HIV and AIDS at the same time!!!!
Posted by icantbelieve, 9 Replies
Last April, viral load over 500.000 and cd4 count 191. Overwhelming. I've been sad, lonely, on meds, always tired, lost weight, appetite, no one knows, live away from my family, no partner, with an infection on my skin since April that impairs my...
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