{"id":196,"date":"2018-01-16T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=196"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:25","slug":"is-a-negative-test-after-3-months-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/196","title":{"rendered":"Is a negative test after three months accurate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, after this time the results are very accurate.<\/p>\n<p>To question #1: Unless you had another exposure risk during the 91 days period, then yes, the test shows that you are HIV negative.<\/p>\n<p>To question #2: In very rare cases it takes more than 40 days for the body to develop antibodies to HIV that can be picked up by the test. That is why it is a good idea to test again three\u00a0months after the possible risk, even though the chances of a positive result then are very small.<\/p>\n<p><em>This question was updated in January 2018 from an original answer posted in October 2007. i-Base no longer answers individual questions about testing and transmission &#8211; please see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/what-are-the-most-asked-questions\">Question 1 at this link<\/a>\u00a0for more information).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I had sex with a girl. Five weeks (37 days) after the exposure, I got HIV test and the result was negative. 91 days after exposure I got HIV test again for confirmation, the result is negative. <\/p>\n<p>My questions are: <\/p>\n<p>1. Does it mean that I am really HIV negative?<\/p>\n<p>2. Should I get HIV test again next December 2007 (6 months after exposure)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","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\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24222,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/24222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}