{"id":12119,"date":"2016-09-30T15:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=12119"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:14:56","slug":"what-is-the-risk-in-the-number-on-my-negative-test-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/12119","title":{"rendered":"What does the number mean on an HIV test result?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Some tests (not in the UK) include a number with the result.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the number is higher than\u00a01.0 it means you are positive.<\/li>\n<li>If the number on your test is less that 1.0 it means you are negative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So long as it is below 1.0 the number itself has little meaning. For example, 0.68 is not worse\u00a0than 0.38. A higher number below 1.0 does NOT indicate a higher chance of having HIV.<\/p>\n<p>If the number is close to 1.0 &#8211; for example between 0.9 and 1.0, the test might be run again.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11903\">Why do I have a number on my negative test result?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ELISA test index value is 0.38. I am non reactive. Is there any risk in this value?<\/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-12119","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\/12119","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=12119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24241,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12119\/revisions\/24241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}