{"id":1753,"date":"2010-05-07T13:18:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:07","slug":"i-am-vegetarian-does-this-affect-my-hiv-test-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1753","title":{"rendered":"I am vegetarian, does this affect my HIV test result?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>If you have had two HIV tests at 6 and 8 weeks after possible exposure and both came back negative then you are very unlikely to have HIV. UK guidelines recommend that a negative test at 90 days is considered conclusive. Being vegetarian will have no affect on production of antibodies so it will not affect the test.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on HIV transmission and testing please follow this link to the i-Base <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/faq\/hiv-transmission-and-testing\">factsheet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello.<\/p>\n<p>Have been tested with the \u2018OraQuick ADVANCE\u00ae Rapid HIV-1\/2 Antibody Test\u2019 using oral fluid after 6 weeks of having had sex with woman who I paid to have sex with me. The results came back negative. After 8 weeks I tested again and it was again negative.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m vegetarian. May this cause it needs a longer period for antibodies to be produced?<\/p>\n<p>Do I need to retest or are those two tests conclusive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24714,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions\/24714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}