{"id":2176,"date":"2010-06-23T11:19:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T11:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:35","slug":"which-tests-are-100-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2176","title":{"rendered":"Which HIV tests are 100% accurate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Most modern 4th\u00a0generation antibody and antigen tests are between 99.5% and 99.9% accurate. If this test is positive, it is then confirmed with a much more sensitive test for HIV antibodies called Western Blot. No single test is 100% accurate but together these two tests are 100% accurate for a positive result.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about HIV tests please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/257\">link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found your website by accident.  Great for information concerning HIV!<\/p>\n<p>One question- is there any HIV test that is 100% accurate and not the 99% that seems to be quoted everywhere.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","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=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24493,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions\/24493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}