{"id":280,"date":"2008-02-06T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=280"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:50","slug":"which-test-is-used-for-a-sooner-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/280","title":{"rendered":"Which test is used to detect an infection within 6 months?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am really sorry to hear this. Hope you are already OK.<\/p>\n<p>Every test, regardless of the system used, after 6 months is conclusive. So you are HIV-negative. The HIV-RNA test (viral load) can show earlier than an antibody test but is not very accurate when the result is negative, and therefore needs to be confirmed by other tests.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a &#8216;detuned&#8217; ELISA is used in research to see if the infection was within the previous 6 months. Detuned means that the test has been modified in a way, so that it is less sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK anyone can ask for this test if they think they have a recent infection. It is called STARHS (Serological Testing Algorithm for Recent HIV Seroconversion) and is provided to your clinic free by the public HPA laboratory based in Colindale.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was raped in May 2006.<\/p>\n<p>I was tested with HIV RNA and ELISAs from 8 weeks to 20 months . I also had Western blot tests along with ELISA and that test was taken at 3 months and all bands were negative.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read on your site about a test that can tell if you&#8217;ve been exposed within 6 months. What test is that? RNA? Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","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\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24276,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/24276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}