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Hiv test result
Hello everyone, yesterday I had a combo HIV test done after 50 days of unprotected sex and the result of the test was written like this, index 0.73. Is this result considered completely negative or an unclear result?
I am currently in Asia and I read on some French government websites that the result between 0.7 and 0.9 is considered unclear. This is the link to the article:
https://www.sida-info-service.org/index-depistage/
.This is a translation of the article:
"""Equal to or greater than 1: the result (ELISA test) is positive but a 2nd test must be carried out on the same sample (Western Blot); Less than 0.708: it is negative. We therefore did not find any trace of HIV in the test ; Between 0.708 and 0.999: it is said to be “doubtful” (or equivocal) and must be checked by a new serology carried out 1 week later."""
I am currently in Asia and I read on some French government websites that the result between 0.7 and 0.9 is considered unclear. This is the link to the article:
https://www.sida-info-service.org/index-depistage/
.This is a translation of the article:
"""Equal to or greater than 1: the result (ELISA test) is positive but a 2nd test must be carried out on the same sample (Western Blot); Less than 0.708: it is negative. We therefore did not find any trace of HIV in the test ; Between 0.708 and 0.999: it is said to be “doubtful” (or equivocal) and must be checked by a new serology carried out 1 week later."""
Anything below 1.0 is negative.
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0.73 negative
I I got worried when i read the french articl
This forum is moderated for accuracy. You had a negative result and that answer won't change from MedHelp forums. Conclusively negative.
We can't account for every article on the internet. We go by the direction of experts in the field. The test itself says anything below 1.0 is negative. Unprotected sex carries a LESS THAN 1 percent chance risk . . . the odds were always almost nothing of transmission. Accept your negative and move on.
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