{"id":2296,"date":"2010-07-08T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:26","slug":"can-you-advise-which-hiv-test-to-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2296","title":{"rendered":"Can you advise which HIV test to have?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth generation tests that test for antibodies and antigen will pick up an infection 3-4 weeks after a possible exposure. These tests are routinely used in most GUM clinic, STI clinic or GP in the UK, and they are free. They are 95% accurate (they will pick up 95% of infections) so are very reliable tests to have done.<\/p>\n<p>A negative test at 28 days should then be confirmed with a second test 90 days after the exposure.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/257\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you please advise my daughter, she has just found out that her boyfriend has been cheating on her, probably over the four years they have been together?<\/p>\n<p>She may have been infected with HIV any time over the past four years and possibly as late as 3 weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Can you advise which HIV test she should have?<\/p>\n<p>I know that the antibody test would pick up infection more than 6 months ago, but what if she is recently infected?<\/p>\n<p>Thank You<\/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-2296","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\/2296","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=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24484,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/24484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}