{"id":250,"date":"2008-01-02T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=250"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:15:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:15:41","slug":"which-test-shall-i-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/250","title":{"rendered":"Which test shall I take for HIV &#8211; antibody or PCR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question. I totally understand your confusion about the various HIV tests available and how to distinguish which one you should take.<\/p>\n<p>The HIV PCR test is a sensitive test but is only recommended in specific circumstances. Viral load tests are not approved to diagnose HIV.<\/p>\n<p>It is not normally used to test HIV in adults because they are less accurate, take longer to get a result and are more complicated and <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read with much confusion over taking either an antibody or a pcr test. Which one should I take and when would the result be conclusive? I have read that even taking antibody test at 6 months is not conclusive, therefore better to take a pcr. Please help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","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\/250","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24289,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/24289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}