{"id":305,"date":"2008-02-20T20:04:05","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T19:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=305"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:15:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:15:41","slug":"is-a-test-after-6-months-conclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/305","title":{"rendered":"Is a test after 6 months conclusive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the official guidelines-yes, the person is negative.<\/p>\n<p>There are reported cases that one can count on the fingers of 2 hands when people developed HIV antibodies after a 6 months&#8217; period. You could compare that with the billions of tests that have been performed so far all around the world and see for yourself how insignificant the probability is.<\/p>\n<p>We advise people with active sexual life to get tested regularly-say every 6 months. Thus, any chance of a situation described above will be excluded as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you continue to worry about this despite negative results, perhaps seek referral to a counsellor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to concern with regards to HIV and HCV infection, if a person tested negative for HIV and HCV antibodies after 6 months from exposure, would it be conclusive that he\/she would not be one of those rare cases of late seroconversion?<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","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\/305","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=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24267,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/24267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}