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HIV Prevention and Testing => Do I Have HIV? => Topic started by: anotherday03 on June 21, 2008, 04:34:17 pm

Title: Tested poz?
Post by: anotherday03 on June 21, 2008, 04:34:17 pm

I tested positive on a rapid test, but now supposedly my
blood work came back negative? ???

Title: Re: Tested poz?
Post by: RapidRod on June 21, 2008, 04:55:54 pm

If your confirmative test came back negative, you're negative.

Title: Re: Tested poz?
Post by: Ann on June 21, 2008, 06:53:49 pm

Another,

Read the Welcome Thread (http://forums.poz.com/index.php?topic=220.0) and click on the Testing Lesson link. Any ELISA (the standard hiv antibody test) that comes back positive is always double checked with a Western Blot. If the WB comes back negative, then you are indeed negative. False positives happen sometimes.

Ann