Tuesday, May 8, 2012

How do you know if a HIV/AIDS Test is really negative if they say it can lay dormeint for years

How do you know if a HIV/AIDS Test is really negative if they say it can lay dormeint for years?

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1 :
3-6 months for HIV to show up in a test when that progresses for a few years it becomes reclassified as AIDS. where a condom and know the risks. knowledge is power.
2 :
It doesn't lay dormant in terms of whether it's there or not. It is dormant in terms of symptoms. It only takes 6 months for it to show up in your system.
3 :
If the virus is dormant, it will still be detected by the test. It's a bit confusing, but when people talk about the virus being dormant they basically mean it's chilling out in the patient's body but not making him/her sick (in which case the patient is HIV-positive but does not have AIDS). The virus is not immediately detectable (I believe whoever it was that said 3-6 months after exposure is right), but a patient can have HIV that will be detectable by an HIV test for several years without showing any symptoms. The risk of a false negative on an HIV test is fairly low (I don't remember the exact number), but if you've had an HIV test that came back negative and are still worried about it you can always get tested again in a couple months.
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The test is looking for signs of the virus - either an antibody or the viral material itself. The disease that results from having a positive test for HIV can lie dormant for decades but the test will still remain positive.

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