{"id":3293,"date":"2017-01-15T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3293"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:19:26","slug":"what-does-the-number-on-my-negative-hiv-test-result-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3293","title":{"rendered":"What does the number on my HIV test result mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Jake,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0result that is less than 1.0 \u00a0means you do not have HIV.\u00a0You result of 0.04 is less than\u00a01.0.<\/p>\n<p>The number is a more accurate (quantitative) way of measuring the result other than a simple, yes or no. If the number is less than 1.0 the result is negative,<\/p>\n<p>if the result is above 1.0 the result is positive,<\/p>\n<p>if the result is very close to 1.0, either higher or lower, then the doctor may decide a confirmatory test is required.<\/p>\n<p>Any time you don&#8217;t understand a test result it is important to ask the test centre or doctor who performed the test.<\/p>\n<p><em>The answer was updated in January 2017 from a post in November 2010.\u00a0i-Base no longer answers questions about HIV testing and transmission.\u00a0Please see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/what-are-the-most-asked-questions\">Questions 1 and 8 at this link<\/a>\u00a0for more information. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an HIV test done and result was negative and non reactive. The result showed 0.04 what does this mean? Jake<\/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-3293","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\/3293","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=3293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24234,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3293\/revisions\/24234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}