{"id":3548,"date":"2010-12-15T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:18:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:18:49","slug":"can-you-explain-my-test-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3548","title":{"rendered":"Can you explain my test results?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about what the numbers mean please follow this link to a <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3477\">similar question<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If your results were 0.04, 0.05, 0.06 or anything less than 0.25 then you do not have HIV. There is no test that is 100% correct for HIV or for any illness. The time at which you take a test is related to its level of accuracy. For more information please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/257\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am working outside of my country and I had unprotected sex 5 months ago I have some symptoms but I had more than 20 test, all were negative and some have numbers like 0.04 &#8211; 0.05 &#8211; 0.06<\/p>\n<p>On the test result were the following statements:<br \/>\nresults less than 0.25 negative<br \/>\nresults less than 0.35 borderline<br \/>\nresults more than 0.35 positive<br \/>\nWhat do these numbers mean and why are they increasing?<\/p>\n<p>All answers are saying that there is no HIV test that is 100%, is it this correct or does it depend on the time that the test was taken? For example if the HIV test was done after 6 month or 1 year after exposure is it this test 100% accurate or not?<\/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-3548","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\/3548","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=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24562,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/24562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}