{"id":2620,"date":"2010-08-12T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T11:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:26","slug":"if-my-friend-is-sharing-needles-is-the-test-accurate-at-31-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2620","title":{"rendered":"If my friend is sharing needles is the test accurate at 31 days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Harry,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>I think if your friend has had a high risk exposure then the clinic is just airing on the side of caution by saying he needs a 6 month test.<\/p>\n<p>If the test he has had is a HIV DUO test then 31 days from his last drug-sharing incident is more than 95% accurate and a test at 90 days is considered conclusive. If he is negative then he does not need a re-test unless he has another possible exposure in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes<\/p>\n<p>Charlie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to ask a question about my friend, he has in the past shared drug equipment &#8211; I know this is a high-risk situation and advised him to take a HIV test.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to know if he has a test on the 31st day from his last drug sharing episode, if this is negative does he need to re-test or can we be assured he is not infected?<\/p>\n<p>I know you say here that a test taken 3-4 weeks after is a good indicator or conclusive. Its only another 2 weeks, but the NHS have advised him he needs to be tested 6 months plus even with them doing the HIV DUO. Please advise.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<br \/>\nHarry<\/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-2620","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\/2620","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=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24460,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/24460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}