Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n
Your GP will probably send the sample to the nearest laboratory which will possibly be in your local general hospital. It might be worth checking with your GP first if you want to know which test they have access to.<\/p>\n
You have every right to ask your GP to give you information about anything related to HIV and HIV testing. A good GP welcomes questions and is supposed to actively empower their patients to make informed decisions. You could ask the doctor about which HIV tests they offer, whether it is third or fourth generation testing.<\/p>\n
Fourth generation testing looks for antibodies (the body\u2019s immune response to HIV infection) as well as antigens (proteins found on the virus itself). Third generation tests look only for antibodies which is why it sometimes takes longer for the results to be accurate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My GUM clinic only opens Monday to Thursday. I work 7-6 so it\u2019s very hard for me to get an appointment. I want a HIV test done and would like to go to my GP. I know the test results are kept on file and that does not bother me although I wanted to know how do I know what generation of testing they are using. Does it go to my local hospital where I know they use 4th generation testing?<\/p>\n
Or what questions can I ask my GP as I don\u2019t want him thinking I\u2019m weird or anything.<\/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-2634","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\/2634","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=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24457,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/24457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}