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TESTING QUESTION
Oraquick oral swab at home test question.
Oraquick's website advises its 99.9% accurate in regards to providing a negative result should someone test with their product and does not have HIV. So if you don't have HIV and the test reads negative you're safe. Very low false positive rate where it would say you were infected if you were not.
They also advise they are 91.7% accurate in testing people that are infected with HIV. Meaning if you do have HIV the test will detect it 91.7% of the time. The other al it's 9% would be their false negative rate.
My question is isn't an almost 9% rate of false negatives a little high? 9/100 positive people who took the test would think they're okay yet aren't.
Any information would be appreciated.
Oraquick's website advises its 99.9% accurate in regards to providing a negative result should someone test with their product and does not have HIV. So if you don't have HIV and the test reads negative you're safe. Very low false positive rate where it would say you were infected if you were not.
They also advise they are 91.7% accurate in testing people that are infected with HIV. Meaning if you do have HIV the test will detect it 91.7% of the time. The other al it's 9% would be their false negative rate.
My question is isn't an almost 9% rate of false negatives a little high? 9/100 positive people who took the test would think they're okay yet aren't.
Any information would be appreciated.
Hi. Actually not even concerned about the exposure, was more curious just to learn about this test and if the false negatives are actually at around 9%. Thanks.
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