{"id":499,"date":"2008-06-25T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T14:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=499"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:17:49","slug":"shall-i-believe-the-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/499","title":{"rendered":"Shall I believe the test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>PEP has a very high success rate if you have taken it correctly. The recommendation is that after completing PEP, you need to take an HIV test and a confirmatory test three months later. This is important because there is no guarantee that PEP will always work. If PEP is not effective it could delay the time to seroconversion.<br \/>\nFor more information please look <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tht.org.uk\/informationresources\/hivandaids\/postexposureprophylaxis\">here<\/a> and also at our previously answered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=361\">question<\/a>. Good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had unprotected sex with a woman. I took PEP almost 70 hours later. I completed a PEP ourse 2 months ago and have taken an HIV test since which turned out negative. Can I believe the test?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-hiv-testing","category-hiv-transmission","category-peppepse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24393,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/24393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}