can Antiretroviral therapy give a false negative to a person who is hiv positive?

Question

I'm not talking about the window period i'm talking about after primary diagnosis of the disease.A hiv + person on Antiretroviral therapy.i know this is possible but is rare and if so what blood test can garauntee accurate results even with Antiretroviral therapy

Answer 1

There are laboratory tests in the lab that are not just plain testing. Like for HIV..nowadays the technology can not be fooled. At the lab, HIV testing is so important (it is like risking our license if we release inaccurate results ), Aside from the usual test (where we use high-tech machines )we do also confirmatory tests. So basically, factors that are affecting the accuracy of result may be eliminated as the blood undergo the procedures. Well, as mentioned there may be small percentage of errors..but rare to occur. Hope this helps. God bless

Answer 2

There is always a false negative rate and a false positive rate with every test. If it's a good test, these rates are very low.

However, antiretroviral therapy does not increase the false negative rate of the HIV test.