{"id":2229,"date":"2010-06-29T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:35","slug":"should-i-have-a-pcr-or-a-duo-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2229","title":{"rendered":"Should I have a PCR or a Duo test?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n

The PCR test is not as accurate as the duo or tri-dot p24 tests but it is more likely to show results earlier than the other tests. The Duo\/Tri-Dot\/p24 tests will detect 95% of infections at 4 weeks after exposure. For more information please see this link<\/a><\/p>\n

If the tests are expensive then you do not need to pay for them unless you really want to go private. Anyone in the UK can go to a GUM clinic and get HIV tests for free. You do not have to let your GP know and you can even give a false name if you are worried about confidentiality.<\/p>\n

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For more information please call the treatment information phoneline Mon-Wed 12-4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi there.<\/p>\n

I will not go into great detail about what has happened as I\u2019m not sure exactly what did. I\u2019m so scared that I might have picked up something that I am going out of my mind.<\/p>\n

A doctor has told me to have a PCR – RNA kind of test. It\u2019s quiet expensive and then I was told I had to go back and have a HIV duo test which is another hundred quid.<\/p>\n

I want to know if I had this test is it conclusive, the PCR or can I have 2 p24 tests.<\/p>\n

My so-called exposure was 1 week ago. So could I have a HIV DUO next week and have a near accurate result and then just chase it up in 2 weeks?<\/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-2229","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\/2229","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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24489,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/24489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}