The CDC National AIDS Hotline @ 1-800-342-AIDS (2437) will give you listings in your community where you can go for confidential and free HIV testingor you can call your local health department.
Get the HIV test at your local health department; it is free.
If your HIV test result was negative, and you've had no new risky exposures since the test, and if you are not in the window period, you can consider yourself free from HIV. The window period the time between infection with HIV and the time when the test will become positive.
No, the VDRL only tells you about syphilis. A test for HIV would need to be done separately.
An HIV blood test is specifically set up to test that. An indication of an infection may show in your CBC as a low white blood count, but is not specifically indicative of HIV. If you want to avoid its being in your medical record, there is free HIV testing in local agencies.
It means that the test was positive for HIV.
No, HBV testing does not test for HIV.
No the HIV test is not a medical examination. It is a blood test.
Negative HIV test result
With an hiv test
The standard HIV test identifies the antibodies the body produces to fight the HIV infection.
Only if the first HIV test was false positive can the test results change.
A thyroid blood test will not detect HIV. Ask for the HIV test by name.