{"id":2837,"date":"2010-09-01T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:33","slug":"is-there-a-conclusive-day-for-a-hiv-test-result-to-be-accurate-how-can-you-get-a-false-negative-or-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2837","title":{"rendered":"Is there a conclusive day for a hiv test result to be accurate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>Different tests have different times at which they are conclusive. Antibody tests are usually accurate between 6-12 weeks with the 12 week mark making it &#8216;conclusive&#8217; (although a positive result would be detected in most 95% people after 28 days).<\/p>\n<p>The fourth generation antibody and antigen tests will detect 95% of infections at 28 days and are conclusive after 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>For information please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/257\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To answer the false negative and false positive question please read our factsheet on <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/faq\/hiv-transmission-and-testing\">transmission and testing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a conclusive day for a hiv test result to be accurate? How can you get a false negative or positive?<\/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-2837","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\/2837","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=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24434,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/24434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}