{"id":2983,"date":"2010-09-20T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:33","slug":"is-a-hiv-test-accurate-at-18-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/2983","title":{"rendered":"Is a HIV test accurate at 18 days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>A test earlier that 28 days will no do you any harm, but it is not sensitive to tell you very much.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth generation HIV tests will detect 95% of infections 4 weeks after an exposure. A fourth generation test 12 weeks after the exposure is needed to rule out the small chance that you take longer than 4 weeks to develop HIV antibodies.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on HIV tests please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/257\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I had an exposure nearly 3 weeks ago, I wanted to get tested next Thursday at the 28 day mark. However stupidly I did something else 1 week ago. If I took my HIV test 15 days after an exposure that would not show anything would it?  If I took it 18 days then confirmed it with another one after 2 weeks would that give me a good indication for my latest exposure?<\/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-2983","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\/2983","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=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24421,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/24421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}