if hiv syringe is reused to draw some blood outfrom non-hiv person will it show up on the test?

Answer 1

Hello Vanessa,

Still going through with the paranoid Friend......

Well i think it would be detected because if there is a hiv present like in a needle kind of way....

If she is still worried have her go to a private clinic..since she is now in london she can try www.freedomhealth.co.uk ...they do the p24 there and the 10-24 day thing as well.

take care

Answer 2

Let's just imagine for the sake of the argument that, somebody would actually do this, and that there was HIV infected blood in that syringe.

The answer is NO!. even if the person is infected there is a chance that the test results might be false negative since the normal HIV test detects the antibody (your body's reaction) to the virus not the virus itself, there is a time frame from the moment you got infected to the time the test results come positive that could be anywhere from 6 months to 1 year.

Once i cut myself stitching an HIV patient and had to take the anti retroviral therapy, but i still had to wait a year after the incident to say i was not HIV positive

Answer 3

HIV is spread by dirty needles, so yes you could contract it from a needle used by someone who was infected that previously used the needle. It is contracted through blood, body fluids and contaminated items.