Hiv Test Result Accuracy

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Your HIV-positive test result only lets you know that you've been infected with HIV. To find out if it's time to get HIV treatment, you'll have to visit a health care provider and get two additional tests. Most HIV-positive people can live many years with HIV before they need to take medications to control it. However, every person who tests HIV positive should immediately have two additional tests: a CD4 count and a viral load test. These...

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Accuracy of Test results after 85 and 90 days

Hi my question is about accuracy of my test results. I got tested twice lately: 1- At 85 days after exposure ( 12 weeks), with a standard antibody test ( I had to get back to the clinic to get results after 1-2 weeks). 2- At 90 days after exposure...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Your negative HIV-antibody tests at 85 and 90 days are definitive and conclusive. Yes, you can trust the results.WOO-HOO!Dr. Bob... Read more »

pimecrolimus and HIV antibody test accuracy?

My situation here is that i had an exposure about one year back and i recently got tested for HIV antibody test and the result was negative. Unfortunately i was using pimecrolimus may be once in every ten days in the same past one year. Do you think...

Response from Ewald Horwath, M.D.

University of Miami School of Medicine

No, a topical cream like pimecrolimus only has a local effect. No significant amount is absorbed and it does not affect the HIV antibody test.... Read more »

Accuracy on rapid HIV oral sure test

How accurate are the rapid oral sure or quick test than the blood antibody test. also can it take longer than six months for HIV antibody to show up positive ?...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Hi and thanks for your post.The rapid HIV tests are highly accurate, but results should be confirmed by Western blot testing.It does not take more than six months for one's antibodies against HIV to turn up.Be well,BY... Read more »

hiv dna test accuracy

If I have an hiv dna pcr test done and an hiv antibody test 30 days after possible exposure and they are both negative does that mean that iam 100% hiv negative and there is no reason to retest...

Response from Richard Cordova III

Test Positive Aware Network

Hi there:No, that would not mean that you are 100% HIV negative. PCR DNA tests have an earlier window of detection that antibody tests, and most people show up positive on an antibody test by 28 days. You need to follow up with a three month... Read more »

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HIV Rapid Oral Fluid Test Accuracy.

Posted by Baily, 1 Reply

Does anyone know about HIV rapid oral fluid test's accuracy. I have been reading mixed reviews that the rapid oral test has a history of false negitives and does not preform as what the manufactor claims >99%.

I tested with an oral fluid test at... Read more »

Accuracy of tests

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I've heard the accuracy percentages of HIV tests, but I was wondering about something that seems rather logical. Wouldn't an inaccurate HIV test more likely be false-positive, rather than false-negative. Aren't there certain things that cause the... Read more »

accuracy of different kinds of tests

Posted by JillianB, 2 Replies

Is one type of HIV test any more accurate than the other? I had a rapid test done (not the oral one, the one that uses a blood sample, sorry I don't know the name) at 7 weeks and plan to have the same test done at 13 weeks. I just read a post by... Read more »

rapid testing accuracy

Posted by DUVCAST, 1 Reply

can someone here been tested positive with rapid testing, just want to know if I can trust my results, since I coming back negative at 5.5 months. Thank you for participating Read more »

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