Dear Dr Tan,
Thanks for answering my question. I have a friend who have raw sex with his new gf a few times for the pass 3 month. Recently his this new gf went for blood test and found to be HIV positive. Alarmed by this, my friend also took a full blood test but was found HIV negatve, only white blood count higher than normal.
Is there a possibility that 3 months is not enough time for the test to be accurate? How is the reliability of blood test? Is there a sure fire way to test if it is HIV positive or negative?
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Originally Posted by DoctorTan
It is anonymous because we have been given a special mandate by the Ministry of Health to conduct anonymous HIV test. In this vein, we have signed a gazette filed in the Supreme Court of Singapore that lets us off the hook for that particular clause of the Infectious Diseases Act which mandates that every healthcare worker who knows or even suspects that a patient have HIV has to report it to MOH.
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