{"id":16298,"date":"2023-06-07T07:48:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T07:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=16298"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:14:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:14:54","slug":"is-a-negative-hiv-test-four-weeks-after-pep-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/16298","title":{"rendered":"Is a negative HIV test four weeks after PEP okay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, people need to wait 4 to 6 weeks after the last dose of PEP before taking a 4th generation HIV antigen\/antibody test.<\/p>\n<p>If this test is negative after 6 weeks, then someone is told they do not have HIV. If it is negative after 4 weeks, it means HIV is unlikely, but that a second test should confirm this after a few more weeks.<\/p>\n<p>There is no point taking an HIV test as soon as you finish PEP.<\/p>\n<p>This is because the PEP could just be covering up or delaying a potential infection.<\/p>\n<p><em>This answer was updated in June 2023 from a question first posted in November 2020. This is because UK guidelines now recommend testing after 6 weeks rather than after 4 weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>Please see this link for more information about PEP:<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/factsheets\/pep-faq<\/a>\n<p>Simon.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible to test positive after testing negative after completing 28 day of\u00a0PEP?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,31,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-peppepse","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16298","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=16298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23606,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16298\/revisions\/23606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}