The US Centers for Disease Control and Preventionrecommendsthatall people get at least one HIV testduring their lifetime. However, many people are recommended to test more often. How often you might benefit from a test is personal and depends on several factors, including your rec...
Every HIV test has a different “window period.” That’s how long you need to wait after exposure until you can expect an accurate result. No HIV test can tell if you have the virus just after you’ve been exposed. If you get tested too soon, you may get faulty results. But if ...
Because HIV can be present in the body for years without causing any symptoms, it’s important to get tested regularly. Knowing your status means you can take care of yourself and your sexual partners. Taking an HIV test helps to diagnose the condition even if you don’t have any symptoms...
Blood tests are the most common way to diagnose HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. These tests look for antibodies to the virus that are present in the blood of infected individuals. People exposed to the virus should get tested immediately. Because it can take from 4 weeks to 12 weeks to ...
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The article reports on the failure of "Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic" (Voice), a clinical trial on HIV-prevention methods funded by the British National Institutes of Health (NIH), which raises questions on the medical ethics in poor countries....
copies of HIV can be found per milliliter of blood. People with an undetectable viral load can’t transmit the virus. This can help suppress the virus in the body, which can lower the viral load event to the point that a test can’t detect it. This is called an undetectable viral ...
Instructions for how to take samples at home using our free STI and HIV home testing kits, and how to return them to us for testing.
Learn more about HIV-1 and how treatment options work together to help lower your viral load to undetectable and raise your CD4 cell count.
How They TestA curated collection of publicly available resources on how software companies around the world test their software systems and build their quality culture.ForewordOne of the outcomes of the various Taqelah meetups was that many software companies got to share their testing and quality...