{"id":3087,"date":"2010-09-30T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T12:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:25","slug":"do-i-need-to-re-test-again-at-8-weeks-12weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3087","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to re-test again at 8 weeks &#8211; 12weeks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>The answer depends on which test you are having. If you are having a third generation antibody only test then it is accurate 6-12 weeks after infection. If you are having a fourth generation antibody and antigen test then it is accurate enough to detect 95% of infections at 28 days.<\/p>\n<p>UK guidelines recommend that a negative test at 28 days needs to be confirmed by a test at 12 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/257\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid putting yourself at risk again in the future please follow this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avert.org\/prevent-hiv.htm\">link<\/a> about how to prevent HIV infection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>I am really uncertain about the HIV testing so I thought I would ask the question.<\/p>\n<p>I have had mutliple exposures (silly I know)<\/p>\n<p>I am getting tested in 2 weeks in my GUM clinic thats exactly 6 &#8211; 4 weeks after my exposures. Now I am also going to get tested last week of October which will be 5 weeks after exposure can I be certain that this test is conclusive or would I need to re-test again at 8 weeks &#8211; 12weeks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3087","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\/3087","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=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24609,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/24609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}