{"id":2461,"date":"2010-07-30T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:34","slug":"do-hiv-tests-pick-up-all-strains-of-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2461","title":{"rendered":"Do HIV tests pick up all strains of HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>The HIV tests available in the UK and worldwide are able to pick up all strains of HIV-1 and HIV-2.<\/p>\n<p>Not many clinics offer the PCR test. You would be better off having a fourth generation HIV test like the DUO or p24 antigen-antibody tests 3-4 weeks after your possible exposure. These tests are more accurate and free at all GUM clinics and GPs in the UK.<\/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>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I recently had sex with someone while I was away in Africa, I am ashamed of what I have done while I was influenced by a lot of alcohol. Now I wanted to have a PCR test done but I am a little bit concerned that the test might not pick up that particular strain of HIV what should I do. Do all HIV tests pick up the virus?<\/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-2461","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\/2461","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=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24471,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions\/24471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}