why the window period of time is defferent from place to place in the internet?

[alexjune]

if all hiv test in US are more sensitives,and can detect antibodies in the weeks 6-8 max  why the CDC has no changed the window period of time of 6 months?

[Emily_MHManager]

Just a note - this video is either seriously outdated or incorrect.  If you check our own Expert forum for testing times - and there are tens of thousands of posts on this - you will see this.  

For starters -

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/Still-worried-about-HIV-after-7-weeks/show/1409127

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/Do-you-think-I-need-to-retest/show/1409574

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/HIV-Prevention/When-can-I-close-this-chapter-of-life--where-to-now/show/1409041

These are on the front page of the forum.  There are many many more.

Emily

[alexjune]

i am not 100% confortable with a negative result at 14 weeks after the expousure, after watch the video in you tube

[alexjune]

so the lady in you tube is playing the fear factor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjDPCoj4ElA
a men that is highly likely HIV + open a wound in my head in a fight...what about if the guy was bleeding due to the brawl in the hand and his blood touch my wound that he inflicted on me ( 5 stiches in the hospital) that is almost the same thing that share a needle or not ? (dierct contact with blood)

[Teak]

http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/gap/pmtct/Trainer%20Manual/Adobe/Module_6TM.pdf

Page 11
Number 4

It was changed in 2004 and as you have been told in the past you never had an exposure.