{"id":2768,"date":"2010-08-25T11:02:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:33","slug":"why-do-private-clinics-disagree-that-testing-at-3-4-weeks-is-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2768","title":{"rendered":"Why do private clinics disagree that testing at 3-4 weeks is ok?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know why they say this at the private clinic. The p24 antigen can be detected in most people after about 3 weeks but this is not good enough to rule out infection.<\/p>\n<p>All tests can pick up infections earlier. Positive results are easy. You need to know that the test is not giving you a negative result when you may be HIV positive.<\/p>\n<p>If you are really worried then take a test at 28 days which will pick up 95% of infections and confirm this with a second test after 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>Private clinics are good at offering all sorts of tests but they should not be telling you that these early result are conclusive because they are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A private clinic on the internet say that a HIV test is relieble 28 days after a possible exposure. A test done before then is usless unless its the multiplex HIV test, however you say that 3-4 is ok. Why do they say this?<\/p>\n<p>They also say they have seen a test change at 21 days plus. <\/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-2768","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\/2768","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=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24441,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/24441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}