How Can I Trust A Hiv Test

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Ding Dong Injury- Can people trust the rapid hiv tests? (Seattle Department Finds OraSure HIV Test to Be Less Accurate Than Label Claims)

DR Greetings and well wishes!! I hope your having a fabulous evening!! First let me tell you that you give hope to the hopeless. Thats power!! Here is my story. I tested negative at 96 days with the finger prick test. I then went back and...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Actually, it was indeed a fabulous evening! I spent it having dinner with two of my favorite people: Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim and New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich!Regarding your ding-dong problem, the blowjob actually bruised... Read more »

Can I trust my negative hiv test?

About 1 1/2 years ago, I had an affair during a rocky time in my marriage. My husband and I have... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

Can i trust the results for an HIV elisa test after 7 and 10 months??

hello docs, you are doing a tremendous job here!! congratshere is the thing, I had unprotected sex... Read more »

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

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

South Carolina: HIV Crusader Rejects Stigma; Program Leader Isn't Shy About Urging People to Be Tested

Vivian Clark is building trust -- one handful of condoms at a time. As project coordinator of the community HIV testing program with the South Carolina African-American HIV/AIDS Council, it is her job to educate people about the disease and urge... Read more »

HIV & Me: A Woman's Guide to Living With HIV: Up Close & Personal - Teniecka

Teniecka trusted her boyfriend of two years. She was monogamous and thought he was, toountil she tested positive for HIV in 2001, and also discovered that her boyfriend was married. It took Teniecka a full year to wrap her mind around being HIV... Read more »

AHA Affiliate Releases Toolkit for ED-Based HIV Testing Programs

HIV Testing Programs Toolkit , Health Research and Educational Trust : HRET, an affiliate of the American Hospital Association , has launched a no-cost, online toolkit to facilitate planning, implementation or expansion of hospital emergency... Read more »

London Health Service Begins Offering Rapid HIV Tests

Barts and the London NHS Trust has become the first National Health Service provider in the United Kingdom to offer rapid, oral HIV tests, BBC News reports. Officials hope that the service will increase the number of people who seek testing... Read more »

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Advice from any of you please!!! trust the test?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I had a very high risk sexual encounter with a female which later found out to be positive... I got tested 6, 9, 11, and 14 months later, but the last two ones were simple/rapid test (don`t know if they are ELISAs or can be compared). Today I have a... Read more »

Should I trust these tests

Posted by Anonymous

I am a married man who made a stupid decision, under the influence of alcohol, to engage in mutual masterbation with a lady I do not know. In addition to my fingers being saturated with her vaginal fluids, my penis also came in contact with a... Read more »

TRUST GAVE ME HIV

Posted by piercedPINOY, 3 Replies

LIVING HIV POSITIVE IN THE PHILIPPINES

TRUST GAVE ME HIV...As my partners told me as they look clean and looks healthy, I wouldn't have thought that I'd get a virus by mere trust of the looks and their words.

I am recently diagnosed sometime late last... Read more »

Trust

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Month ago I found out my husband is Hiv pos. Our marriage has been builted up on lies. I tested neg. Thankful to God. I can accept his illness what I can't accept is the lies and the cheating of how this happen. I don't think it will stop because I... Read more »

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