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Are 2 negative hiv 4th generation test after 1 year of exposure true negative ?
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Most likely: 1 year after exposure to HIV, people who have contracted the virus will develop antibodies to the virus. This means that your body has seen the virus and responded. False negatives are less common now because earlier in the disease we can also look for the virus itself, rather than waiting to detect antibodies. Newer tests tend to look for both. So after 1 year a negative test is true negative.
Answered 5/27/2021
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