{"id":1761,"date":"2010-05-07T13:32:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T13:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=1761"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:07","slug":"is-a-test-at-12-weeks-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/1761","title":{"rendered":"Is a test at 12 weeks accurate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Modern tests are usually accurate 3-4 weeks after exposure to HIV. If your test has come back negative after 12 weeks then you do not have HIV. There is no need to go for a second HIV test unless you expose yourself to possible infection again.<\/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>I recently had an HIV test which came back negative. This was done at exactly 12 weeks from the possible exposure. Can I take this as a conclusive result (as it was exactly 12 weeks) or should I leave it a bit longer and go for another test as 3 months is slightly longer than 12 weeks?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761","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=1761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24323,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1761\/revisions\/24323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}