When to get tested for HIV?
Nov 29, 2019 — If the time to take PEP has passed, then most modern HIV tests are now able to detect HIV from around four weeks after exposure. Depending
When a girls is raped, then the attacker may be (1) HIV positive or (2) HIV negative. If positive, the victim will become HIV positive if she waits or ignores any testing. If negative, she is OK but how does she know?
She goes to the AIDS clinic or hospital for a PEP test within 72 hours of the rape. She is given ART medication to take for a month. This report comes from a poster on the wall at the ANGAU clinic in Lae.
If negative, she is OK. If positive, the virus will be cleaned out by the PEP ART medication. But the woman must go for treatment within 72 hours. After that time if positive, the virus will enter the lymph internal organs and remain.
She is now HIV positive. She can take ART to destroy the virus in the blood and lymph vessels but not in the lymph hiding places. The virus stays to burst out with default in ART medication.
I used to tell my daughters that if they are raped, not to be ashamed to tell their father. He will not scream and bash them but take them straight to the medical centre for PEP.
PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) means taking medicine to prevent HIV after a possible exposure. PEP should be used only in emergency situations and must
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