False home testing.If you've used an at-home HIV antibody HIV antibody A self antibody specifically directed against one or more proteins or antigens on the surface of HIV, which may be minimally protective against HIV test purchased on the Internet in the last three years, you may want to get retested right away. The Discreet dis·creet adj. 1. Marked by, exercising, or showing prudence and wise self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect. 2. Free from ostentation or pretension; modest. home HIV test HIV test Various tests have been used to detect HIV and production of antibodies thereto; some HTs shown below are no longer actively used, but are listed for completeness and context. See HIV, Immunoblot. kits, sold on the now-defunct Canada-based Web sites www.discreettest.com and www.aidshivtest.com, claimed to provide results in about five minutes that were more than 99% accurate. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), agency of the U.S. Public Health Service since 1973, with headquarters in Atlanta; it was established in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center. found that they produce false-negative or false-positive results up to nearly 60% of the time under some circumstances. Thousands of the test kits have been shipped to U.S. consumers since they went on sale in June 2001. |
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