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False Positive Hiv Test Stories. Lots of people worry about taking an HIV test but its the only way to know your status. The first was a well womans visit. If 1000 uninfected people are tested with an HIV test and 4 have false-positive results the HIV tests specificity is 996 996 true negative test results1000 HIV. HIV tests are highly sensitive and may result in a false positive.
A false-positive result happens when a person who doesnt have HIV receives a positive result after being tested for the virus. Although most modern HIV screening tests demonstrate both excellent sensitivity and specificity they have the potential for false-positive. False-positive HIV test results. One woman said that her husband had divorced her and she had remarried someone from the HIV peer support group. Just months ago I was agonizing over the decision of whether to have another baby. Just your basic checking for everything under the sun- type of test.
We report a case of a false-positive HIV result in an apparently healthy pregnant woman.
Thats what one expectant mom in the Baby Bumps subreddit was contending with recently sharing that she received what she suspected was a false positive on her routine first trimester HIV test. Its ok to be anxious but getting tested is probably easier than you think. Its quick confidential and usually free. A patient with MALT tells of false positive tests for HIV. Australia had previously agreed to buy 51 million doses. I have IBD which is an auto immune disease.