hiv exposure

[mark_jonathan]

I had sex (protected) with 5 prostitutes in Cambodia. One later told me she had Hiv however I was protected.
There was  period blood, I washed as soon as I saw this and stopped having sex.

On the holiday I also had sex with 2 Austrailian women unprotected.

I had a 3 week MEIA test in Bangkok after the condom 'exposure' to the HIV infected female.

I tested neg how accurate is the MEIA  test? I the MEIA test 4th generation?

[RainLover71]

No worries,so far so good but be sure to have that final test at 3 months to make it all official.

[mark_jonathan]

cheers, thanks for the infomation

[RainLover71]

The unprotected sex with the Australian women has placed you at risk and it was a DUO or COMBO test that you had and at 4 weeks that test is 99.89% accurate but the antigen part only looks for HIV1.

[mark_jonathan]

no idea, it just said MEIA test 99.9 per cent accurate then negative....

I looked for the definition of MEIA and it says that it looks for both anitgen and antibody

either way what do you think of my exposures?

[RainLover71]

Did you have AB + AG which is the DUO test which looks for antibodies + antigen or just the antibody test?

[mark_jonathan]

I don't want to contradict you here, I don't know what is right but here it says MEIA is 4th generation then again they maybe wrong.

If it is 4th gen then it would be more accurate at 3 weeks...?

http://www.aidsvancouver.org/what-we-do/helpline/online/microparticle-enzyme-immuno-assay

thanks for your help

[RainLover71]

around 75% at 3 weeks and it's 3rd generation.

[mark_jonathan]

That was meant to say is how accurate is the MEIA test at 3 weeks? Is it a 4th generation test?

[RainLover71]

The test is approved and accurate at 3 months post--exposure.