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HIV and false negatives

I remember reading awhile back that Magic Johnson no longer had HIV testable levels of HIV in his blood stream. Is this possible? can a person infected with HIV test negative for it, assuming its 6 months past the infection date?
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186166 tn?1385259382
in a case of someone having an undetectable viral load...undetectable does NOT mean 0.  this comes from the meds they take...NOT just some fluke of nature.

yes...they would test positive.  you get hiv...you have it for life ! ! ! ! !
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And anyone with an undetectable level of hiv would still test possitve on an antibody test correct?
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Just because he doesn't have detectable levels does not mean that he doesn't have HIV. He does have HIV and takes HAART and is still able to infect others.
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