{"id":17552,"date":"2021-08-27T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T10:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=17552"},"modified":"2021-09-05T07:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T07:25:31","slug":"will-covid-19-antigen-tests-show-i-am-hiv-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/17552","title":{"rendered":"Will COVID-19 antigen tests show I am HIV positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Thanks for letting us answer your Q online.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The COVID antigen test is only looking for SARS-CoV-2. The results don&#8217;t say anything about your HIV status.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The tests are similar to HIV antigen test that are used to diagnose HIV. But testing for COVID-19 doesn&#8217;t give any information about HIV status because the two viruses are so different.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">CD4 tests look for a type of immune cell.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">HIV viral load tests look for HIV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello. I\u2019m having an antigen test for COVID-19. Will this test my cd4 count I guess? Is this test the same kind of test I will get when checking my CD4 count and viral load for my HIV doctor? Or are they different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552","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=17552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}