First of all, please calm down as you are a bit paranoid.<\/p>\n
The medical professional suggests a full STD testing just to be on the safe side and check whether you have any other infection by chance. HIV test is simply a part of it. It is not been suggested on purpose.<\/p>\n
The tests detect infection, regardless of what period of the infection they are performed at-initial or full blown AIDS.<\/p>\n
So, no worries about HIV infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had sexual contact with a man over a year ago now, a condom was used, but lately I have been worrying that I could have caught something. I had a rapid HIV test at a private clinic 2 months ago and that was negative, and I also went to a GUM clinic today and had another rapid test which was also negative. However, the lady at the clinic also suggested I have the full sexual health screening which includes another HIV test. Why would she suggest this if the rapid tests are accurate? Also, say if, I had got infected years and years ago and had full blown AIDS, would that still show up as HIV antibodies in my blood? Am so confused…..<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","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\/672","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=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24354,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/24354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}