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Hiv Testing After Contact
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Negative antibody test 4 years after HIV contact?Hi Mr M.Excuse my ignorance as I am still trying to understand HIV/AIDS. A question from 16 December contained a statement whereby the patient had contracted HIV in 1994 due to tragic circumstances, yet tested negative in 1998 to HIV antibody. Is...
Response from J. B. Molaghan, N.P., A.C.R.N.
San Francisco General Hospital
HelloThe standard HIV antibody test will show positive within weeks after infection in the majority of people who are infected. Although the sensitivity and specificity of this test is accurate in about 98% of people who are tested, there are rare...
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Can a child contact HIV from a carrier who's "dads friend"? (CASUAL CONTACT, HIV BASICS)My daughters (5) and her father, is in a relationship with a girl who is a HIV Carrier on... Read more »Thank You Dr. Frascino- casual contact (CASUAL CONTACT, 2011)I just wanted show my appreciation for you and this website. I recently found out my brother was... Read more »
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Chinese Province Requires People to Provide Real Names, Contact Information When Taking HIV TestsChina's Yunnan province has begun requiring people to provide their real names and contact information when taking HIV tests, Xinhua/ People's Daily reports. According to Lu Lin, director of the Disease Prevention and Control Center of Yunnan,... Read more »
Support Among Persons Infected With HIV for Routine Health Department Contact for HIV Partner NotificationA central goal of CDC's recently announced Serostatus Approach to Fighting HIV (SAFE) is to increase the proportion of Americans with HIV who are aware that they are infected. One way to reach that goal may be through enhanced partner notification... Read more »
New Studies Reinforce Importance of Anonymous HIV TestingContact: media@aidsaction.org or call: 202-986-1300 Washington, D.C . -- Two new studies released today by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) demonstrate the importance of anonymous testing as a tool for getting people at... Read more »
HIV Infections Attributed to Male-to-Male Sexual Contact -- Metropolitan Statistical Areas, United States and Puerto Rico, 2010Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections attributed to male-to-male sexual contact comprised 64% of the estimated new HIV infections in the United States in 2009. 1 Assessing the geographic distribution of HIV infection by transmission... Read more »
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Are tests valid after another sexual contact?...
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
1.What about people who have another sexual contact or other sexual contacts during the window or latency period?... 2. Are test results valid once you've had another sexual contact since getting tested?... Read more » Possible HIV contact
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
I came to find out that I may have been exposed to the HIV virus. The person I was with penetrated me without a condom and then we stopped for a condom. After finding out that he was HIV + I went straight to the hospital and recieved 15 days of...
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Hiv fear after unprotected contact
Posted by Nickkk, 2 Replies
First of all i must tell you that i do not come from USA, so sorry for my bad english.I come from Europe and my name is Nick, also i am 26 years old. I have an unprotected sex before ~2 months-(73days) with a woman that her hiv condition is unknown... Read more » HIV - through hand contact?
Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
I'm currently feeling absolutely petrified and shocked with an insistent belief that I have contracted HIV. The tragic incident occurred with a prostitute who first had her fingers inside her vagina and then used that hand to rub my penis for some... Read more »
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