I was told that hiv can hide?
Question:
i was raped by another guy been tested all the way out to 13 months all negative tests
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HIV does not lay dormant.EVER.
From the moment it enters your body and infects its first immune cell it begins to replicate. At the rate of more than 10 billion (that's right, BILLION) every day.
A person newly infected will have a viral load (the amount of HIV in their blood) higher than at any time (except possibly end stage AIDS).
What you may be referring to is the fact that HIV can "hide" in places other than the blood/immune cells. It can live in spinal cord fluid, testicles, which are called reservoirs. These reservoirs make it hard to eradicate HIV from the body.
When HIV firsts infects a CD4+ cell, it injects it's genetic information and blueprints for creating more virus. At this point it will stop and copies of HIV are not made until that CD4+ cell is called to action by an infection. Instead of doing what it is supposed to do (fight the infection) it begins to create new copies of the virus. These CD4+ cells are called latently-infected.
HIV tests are accurate at 13 weeks, however a negative test at 6 months will DEFINITIVELY rule out infection.
Assuming you have not been exposed since you were raped, you are HIV negative (according to the details you provided).
Hope this helps
Yes, it is true. It can lay dormant for several years.
TEN YEARS
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