{"id":21612,"date":"2023-04-26T14:50:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=21612"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:14:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:14:54","slug":"am-i-positive-or-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/21612","title":{"rendered":"Am I positive or negative?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>Have you had any follow-up CD4 count tests since starting treatment? Do you know if your CD4 count is improving?<\/p>\n<p>What test did you use to determine that you are HIV positive? CD4 count alone is not a suitable test to be used as a diagnostic test for HIV. Usually it is a 4th generation antigen\/antibody test. Have you had any viral load testing?<\/p>\n<p>I do not recognise &#8216;iam&#8217; and &#8216;Craig&#8217; tests. Though as they are both negative was any follow up tests offered\/recommended?<\/p>\n<p>Josh,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 2022 I was tested for HIV. My results were as follows&#8230;CD4 count was 200, &#8216;lam&#8217; test was negative and &#8216;Craig&#8217; test was negative. What does it mean? I started and am still taking meds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21613,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612\/revisions\/21613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}