Question about HIV testing - AIM
 

"THE 1ST GENERATION INDIVIDUALS SHOULD NOT TEST UNTIL THE DATE GIVEN BELOW!!!!!!" as quoted from the quarantine page on AIM - http://aim-med.org/Quarantine.html

I'm wondering why the people on the 1st gen list are being told not to test until one month after contact. What harm would it have done to have been tested immediately and retested in a week or so if negative? It would seem that if people on the 1st and/or 2nd gen list came up positive, this would enable them to actively seek out and warn 3rd gen and move on down the list... get an earlier start on things if needed.

If someone has an explaination for this, I'd truly like to know the reasoning. I just know that if I were on any of those lists, I'd want to be tested as soon as possible.

Also, does anyone have any info on the press conference that was held yesterday?

the reason for the month long quarentine thing is that even when having sex with someone infected, it takes 2-3 weeks for the virus to show up in your system. Most talent and producers are going for 60 days and 2 tests to be sure.

they have a new oral hiv test coming out that gives you results in 20 minutes

http://www.ashp.org/news/ShowArticle.cfm?id=4814

They're probably worried about people getting false negatives from being tested too early then going back to their regularly scheduled sex lives:helpme

bingo

Just because it can give results in 20 min doesnt have anything to do with the period of time it takes for the disease to show in your system 30-60+ days

A virus is an extremely tiny thing. Very fuckin small.

Antibodies are what?s being tested for.

Antibodies take time to produce.

Antibodies have to exist in numbers great enough to test.

-Ben