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Can HIV Be Positive After A Period Of One Year?
hello, I had a sexual encounter on july 29, 2013 with a girl of unknown status. After I got tested at 1 week, 45 days and 3rd test in the last week of october. All test results came out negative. Can I be hiv +, do I need further testing? can I hiv symptom show up after 1 year of exposure when ur test results came negative?
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Sat, 5 Jul 2014
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Hi,
Welcome to HCM.
You need no further testing for HIV. HIV testing would be conclusive by 3 months in normal circumstances and never becomes reactive beyond 6 months even in unusual situations. So you need not worry at all. HIV symptoms can manifest even beyond 5-7 years, but the blood test would be positive within 3 months time.
Dr S.Murugan
Welcome to HCM.
You need no further testing for HIV. HIV testing would be conclusive by 3 months in normal circumstances and never becomes reactive beyond 6 months even in unusual situations. So you need not worry at all. HIV symptoms can manifest even beyond 5-7 years, but the blood test would be positive within 3 months time.
Dr S.Murugan
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If your test was negative in last week of october 2013, then it is very unlikely you have HIV infection due to sexual encounter in July 2013. So you need not worry. But practice safe sex. HIV is infection and disease is caused AIDS , and incubation period is longer.As you were negative for HIV, you need not worry about symptoms.
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Hi, its all depends on which kind of test you have gone through. Because hiv antibodies can not be detected for long time.which is known as window period. So if gone through confirmatory test then your chances are negligible. If you have not gone through that then go for confirmatory hiv test like p24 or pcr once.
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Since you were negative at the end of three months , so in all probability you are negative . You can't have no HIV symptoms after one year unless you had a
re-exposure in this period .
re-exposure in this period .
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