Talking about home testing for HIV

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Gamer

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Dec 17

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Good day

Quick question. Going back on some of your answers I see you say 4 weeks, only 50% accuracy, yet 30 days you say 90%. Theres only a two day difference in those.

However, can I ask you what sort of accuracy rate would a test 45 days post exposure give you? Thats around 6 weeks and 3 days.

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Gamer
 Used on 19th December 2017

Thanks for the response Gary. So as long as the control line appears on the top of your test it means that i have used enough blood and the test has worked?

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Gary Carpenter, BioSure (UK) Limited
 Work on 18th December 2017

Hi Gamer, Thanks for getting in touch and sorry if we have put out confusing information. I will tray and clarify. 50% of people will have made enough of the right kind of antibodies by around 25 days after infection (but we round this up to 4 weeks to err on the safe side. The number of people who have antibodies then rises very rapidly so that by 30 days about 90% have them. The process of antibody creation is very variable by person. By 45 days about 94% of people will have the antibodies that the BioSURE HIV Self Test looks for. I hope that this helps. Kind regards Gary Carpenter BioSure (UK) Limited

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