{"id":10411,"date":"2015-03-01T18:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10411"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:51","slug":"was-my-hiv-test-in-london-a-3rd-or-4th-generation-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10411","title":{"rendered":"Was my HIV test in London a 3rd or 4th generation test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>Most tests\u00a0where you have a sample of blood taken in a test tube are 4th generation (antigen + antibody). A few clinics still use third generations tests though (antibody only).<\/p>\n<p>Most &#8216;rapid&#8217; HIV tests which just use a finger-prick blood sample or an oral swab, use 3rd generation technology (antibody only).<\/p>\n<p>The only way to find this out is to ask the clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went into a London GUM\u00a0clinic and had a standard sexual health screening, part of this included a HIV test by blood sample.<\/p>\n<p>The nurse did not inform me what type of test it was and I was wondering would it have been a fourth generation test or third? This was in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The results come back negative from two exposures at 6 and 7 weeks and I&#8217;m now waiting for the 3 month mark, but it would really help knowing what type of test it was please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24521,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions\/24521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}