link<\/a> to a more detailed explanation of the different tests and the length of their window period. Most tests are accurate 2-3 weeks after a possible exposure. If you tested before this time you may want to test again to confirm you are HIV negative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I recently had unprotected sex with a woman and was only inside her for a moment. She got tested with the EIA test a few days later and the result was negative. I too got test and my result was negative.<\/p>\n
However I am concerned about the \u2018window period\u2019 issue and whether I may have contracted HIV as I have no idea about this woman\u2019s sexual history. What do you suggest I do? I am extremely anxious and worried?<\/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-2018","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\/2018","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=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24500,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/24500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}