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Originally Posted by Big Sexy
No problem with your statment...  but r u 100% sure the HIV test kit they use in UK is similar to the one in sg??
hmm.. also on the point that your friend was told to keep on testing for HIV for 3 years....not to doubt you.... but i really dont think DCS is so cockup..
i have been ther
e many time for the check up since about 3 years back and was told eery time to use 3-6 month as a guideline. 3 month being 99.5% sure ... and 6 month to be 100% sure.. never was i told to continue to test for more than a year... |
the test used are exactly what they use in UK and Netherlands.Anyone who been there for the test should recognised it.
http://www.pmtctdonations.org/en/pro...determine.aspx
http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/E01C...8F706BAACC2.asp
http://www.hivnet.org/HVN/Organisati...heckpoint8.htm
Other lab test from singapore labs are 3rd generation elisas consist of the abbott AXSYM, PRISM or IMX..
Actually nothing in medical is 100% ..doctors will just tell u a test at 6 months is over 99% and u are damn safe. Weird things happens so there is no gurantee in anything.Throughout the 20 + years, there are only 2 cases of seroconverting after 3 months..1 at 9 months and another at 12 months..But these are Health Care Worker that kanna needle stick injuries..so even if a person is a odd case out of millions..a 6 months test is also not always gurantee safe.
http://www.thebody.com/Forums/AIDS/S...r/Q155156.html
I've checked with a specialist from John Hopkins University and was told that a 6 months test is necessary is the person is being put on PEP which are antiretroviral drugs to help prevent infection if a person has a high risk. those drugs might delayed seroconversion. The french scientist Luc Montaigner who isolate both strains of the virus stated that the longer seroconversion he ever seen is 77 days. Read the book "the man and the virus" c 1994.
Also read this article if interested. From the australian government. there are some interesting facts about the window period. On the bottom of the article.
http://www.ashm.org.au/uploadFile/jc_april%20issue.pdf