{"id":3295,"date":"2010-11-05T16:12:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:16:52","slug":"i-know-a-28-day-test-is-conclusive-but-how-good-is-a-test-at-24-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3295","title":{"rendered":"How good is a test at 24 days?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>The DUO tests will pick up 95% of infections at 4 weeks after an infection.<\/p>\n<p>Testing earlier than 4 weeks reduces the percentage of infections that would be detected. Most people generate antibodies to HIV between week 3 and 4. Although the antigen part of the test should pick up evidence of an immune response to P24, this might not be present in everyone by week 3-4.<\/p>\n<p>You need to test 90 days after an exposure for a conclusive result.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about testing please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/faq\/hiv-transmission-and-testing\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I had an unprotected sexual encounter with a random older woman a few weeks ago. I got tested for common STDs a week after and all were negative. 24 days after the incident I had a DUO HIV test which was also negative. Can I forget about the incident? &#8211; I have had no flu like symptoms etc.<\/p>\n<p>I know 28 days is conclusive, but how good is a test at 24 days?<\/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-3295","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\/3295","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=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24589,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/24589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}