{"id":26156,"date":"2025-06-15T14:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26156"},"modified":"2025-06-15T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T13:44:10","slug":"when-can-i-stop-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26156","title":{"rendered":"When can I stop testing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and thanks for getting in touch<\/p>\n<p>First of all, your partner will need a confirmatory test at a sexual health clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Just because he got a reactive result in a rapid test doesn&#8217;t mean he is living with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the window period for HIV can be up to three months.<\/p>\n<p>So you can stop testing after 3 months (if I understand correctly you are now at 1 month).<\/p>\n<p>But this also has to do with what kind of test you are using.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/testing\/how-soon-can-i-take-a-test\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Finally, it&#8217;s great you want to know more about how to protect yourself and have engaged in testing already.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11844\">link<\/a> for info on risk and testing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"gmail_signature\" dir=\"ltr\" data-smartmail=\"gmail_signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I slept with one man for 2 weeks, and after one month we got HIV tests. His result is reactive but my test was not. Do I need to keep testing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26156","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\/26156","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26161,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26156\/revisions\/26161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}