How Likely Is It To Get HIV From Period Blood

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Blood Work: A Complete Guide for Monitoring HIV

Introduction Lab tests, or blood work, can give important clues about your overall health and HIV disease. Many of these tests should be done shortly after learning that you're HIV-positive. This will establish a "baseline" measure of your immune health and show how active HIV is. Knowing this information will help you watch for changes in your health over time as well as check the impact of any treatments that you take. Factors such as age,...

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Conclusive answer wanted: is HIV - female more likely to be infected during menstruation by receptive penile sex?

Dear Doctor,While you website is incredibly comprehensive and coherent in most topics, it is with frustration and much dissapointment that I have been able to find so little information devoted to the potential increased risk for a woman to be...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi R.,Sorry, there is no "new information." As I hope you can appreciate, collecting information on this topic would be incredibly challenging. You certainly cannot do a controlled clinical trial to gain more detailed information on this... Read more »

What's your first HIV test like?

Im sure that others, as well as myself, are interested in knowing what happens when you go that first time time to tested for HIV. I realize its a blood test, but could you give me some insight as to what type of questions will be asked upon...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Hi, Thank you for your question.The experiences a person has while taking a test for the first time can vary greatly from one place to another. Some places just do the test with no test counseling associated with it. They just take the blood and... Read more »

3 month Window Period or Six Month Window Period (WINDOW PERIOD, 6 WEEKS v 3MONTHS v 6 MONTHS)

Dr. Bob,Thank you for not only responding to me but for responding to all of us with concerns. Your responses have reassured me, but what causes me concern is the differing opinions on the window period. I've read, have been told that a test...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,I've discussed this topic numerous times in this forum. I'll repost below a small sample of what can be found in the archives. I do realize it's a confusing issue.Dr. Bobwhat is the winow period 3 or 6 months? Can Whooo after 3?... Read more »

Likely hood of a False Negative!? :(

Hi,I got a blood test and it came negative at 16 weeks. Could there be a chance that this is a false negative?! I'm really worried. Is there a need for me to get tested again?...

Response from Shannon Southall

Rocky Mountain CARES

HIThe guidelines for HIV testing are to be initially tested at 3 weeks then again at 3 months, if both of these tests are negative then so are you. This is because of what we call the window period the time in between the 3 week and 3 month testing.... Read more »

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Would it be obvious(Basically, what would it feel like) if someone else's blood got in your eye.

Posted by AZT, 2 Replies

Would it be obvious(Basically, what would it feel like) if someone else's blood got in your eye. Read more »

What's it gonna be like?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Hello everybody. I'm writing from Europe, Italy. I'm 28 and I was diagnosed with HIV just two weeks ago; I didn't expect it because I've had no symptoms so far. It was like a fist in my chest, my mind was reeling as I felt like falling from the 7th... Read more »

organ donor had hiv in window period

Posted by nomoreworry4me, 1 Reply

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4 patients get HIV from organ donor
Email|Print| Text size + By Lindsey Tanner
AP Medical Writer / November 13, 2007
CHICAGO --A troubling case in which a high-risk organ donor infected four patients with the AIDS virus and... Read more »

Window Period

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CDC MMWR

Revised Guidelines for HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral November 9, 2001 / 50(RR19);1-58

Most infected persons will develop detectable HIV antibody within 3 months of exposure. If the initial negative HIV test was conducted within the... Read more »

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