Deadset ... One can surely infect others immediately after having contracted the virus ...in other words as early as the day after the infection primarily due to the high viral load ...The body is yet to reconcile with the situation thats entirely new to it ..The virus would then find itself a HOST cell to cling to ..and then would attach its RNA with the DNA of the host ..Later on it ll get inside of the cell and using it's replication mechanism would create multiple copies of itself.
You can get a DNA PCR test on or after the 28th day of plausible exposure, that detects proviral DNA integrated into the host genome. The latent proviral DNA serves as a reservoir for viral replication. The HIV DNA PCR test can detect this latent or inactive HIV virus.
Good luck ...
Yes I can't rely on her words. I am so aware of this and of course I will test myself again at 3 months.
I was negative before this encounter, I was tested just over 2 weeks ago and my previous encounter was more than 3 months before. I assured her of this. She then categorically assured me that she was recently tested as negative.
Now presuming that what she says is true I am trying to ascertain what that result (assuming it to be the true fact) means to me.
Can someone catch HIV and then be in a state of infection to pass it on to someone the next day or week? ( and still be negative on a test ) Or does the infection require time to become transmittable as it requires time ( 3 months) to be visible on a test?
Thanks
Paul
You can't rely upon her words ...What if you had HIV and had unprotected sex with her ? huh ? She would surely tell her next root rat partner that she is clean of HIV .. which would be rediculously wrong.
The only way you could be sure that you didn't contract the virus is by gettin a test ..Just don't be forlorn of all hope. don't be evasive eitiher ...Don't scout for more answers .cuz i bet you ll have more questions to ask within the next fortnight or so than the ones that can ever be answered ... hmm
Good lick ......