{"id":2273,"date":"2010-07-08T14:53:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T14:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:26","slug":"i-have-been-poked-by-a-needle-what-is-the-risk-of-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2273","title":{"rendered":"I have been poked by a needle, what is the risk of infection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sam,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult but not impossible, to get HIV from a needle stick injury. HIV does not live for long outside the body, usually less than an hour depending on the conditions.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to have the HIV test that includes p24 and atibodies after 28 days it would be over 95% accurate for all modes of HIV transmission including needle stick injuries.<\/p>\n<p>If this test is positive, it is then confirmed with a much more sensitive test for HIV antibodies called Western Blot.<\/p>\n<p>No single test is 100% accurate but together these two tests are 100% accurate for a positive result and more than 99.99% accurate (at 90 days) for a negative result.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on testing please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/257\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have been poked by a needle, not knowing if it was used before what are the chances of HIV transmission?<\/p>\n<p>I cannot remember if the seal was correctly sealed or open and the lid was obviously put back on and then taken off and then I accidently poked myself.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly can you please advise me of the risk and secondly if I decided to do a HIV test after 28 days the p24 one would that be a conclusive result for a needle poke?<\/p>\n<p>Sam<\/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-2273","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\/2273","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=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24485,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/24485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}