Welcome back to the Forum. Let me tell you how sorry I am to hear of your assault. While this does not change the biology of your exposure, for many persons it does change the clinical approach. Our threshold for testing tends to be lower for victims of sexual assault than for persons exposed to new partners for other reasons. Further, the psychological trauma associated with assault may be ameliorated by knowledge that you were not infected. For this reason, I think that testing is a good idea. At this time 4 weeks after your assault, a negative HIV test would be strong (but not quite definitive) evidence that you were not infected with HIV in your assault. A standard HIV antibody test at this time would detect over 90% of recent HIV infections. Repeat testing at 8 weeks after exposure would completely rule out the possibility of infection.
I hope this comment is helpful to you. EWH
Thank you very much for the information you provided doctor.
The risk of any single exposure is quite low. I would estimate your mathematical chance of infection as being far less that 1 10,000. EWH
Thank you very much doctor for your helpful comments. I have one last question for you. I have already been tested for all the other STI's and they have come back negative, so would there be less of a chance that I have been infected with HIV?