{"id":217,"date":"2007-11-14T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T12:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=217"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:23","slug":"what-does-hiv-negative-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/217","title":{"rendered":"What does HIV negative mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An HIV negative test result means someone does not have HIV.<\/p>\n<p>More accurately, it means there were no HIV antibodies in the blood sample, which tell you the HIV status several weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>If someone was recently infected \u2013 in the window period before the body develops antibodies \u2013 the a second test is recommended a few months later.<\/p>\n<p>For further information see the other <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/category\/catching-hiv-and-reinfection\">questions on testing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: this answer was last updated in January 2017 from a question in November 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand what HIV-negative means. Please explain this to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24610,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/24610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}