{"id":3408,"date":"2010-11-30T13:44:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T13:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:24","slug":"do-i-need-to-test-again-after-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3408","title":{"rendered":"Do I need to test again after 6 months?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your questions.<\/p>\n<p>HIV tests are very reliable. Please see more information on the subject<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/faq\/hiv-transmission-and-testing\"> here<\/a>. If there are antibodies in your blood they will show up if the HIV test if it is taken at the right time. So if your tests are negative, be grateful for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:<\/p>\n<p>I am male and 25 year old. I had unprotected sex on 7 August 2010 with a girl with an unknown status. After that,  I  had sex with my girl friend on 27 August with a condom but it broke. I had what I believe were acute HIV symptoms on 13 September. Then I I had hive tests at 6, 9, 14 weeks after my first exposure and they were all negative (Tridot rapid test).  My questions are<br \/>\n1] Whether tridot test reliable after 14 weeks and at 11 weeks with my girl friend. Do I need to retest?<br \/>\n2] My doctor thought that I haD viral  infection so that he has given me medicine regarding to it. Does that affect 12 weeks window period. Should I need to test after 6 months?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3408","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\/3408","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24578,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/24578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}