{"id":11867,"date":"2016-08-24T17:36:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11867"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:14:56","slug":"do-test-results-show-the-mode-of-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11867","title":{"rendered":"Do test results show the mode of transmission?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I am afraid this is not possible. Many HIV positive people do not how and when they acquired HIV. HIV also mutates very quickly making it harder. The CD4 count of a person can sometimes be considered as a sign for how long someone has been positive but this isn&#8217;t a good indicator\u00a0 as people respond differently to HIV, and have different CD4 counts at the same stage of infection.<\/p>\n<p>If you think think you became positive within the last 6 months or so then there is a type of testing for this &#8211;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/early-diagnosis\">early infection and\u00a0RITA\u00a0testing<\/a>. This is not available in all countries though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>can an HIV positive test report show the way the virus was transmitted?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11867","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\/11867","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24248,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions\/24248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}