Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Sexual & Reproductive

A Caution About Rapid HIV Testing

The CDC recommends widespread screening. What are the options?

Posted June 23, 2008

Reader Comments

Rapid HIV testing

I am 17 years old and two days ago I went to my local Health Clinic for Birth Control and decided to get an HIV test. I had taken a test 7 months earlier but just wanted to make sure my body was in its best shape. I took the finger prick test and despite my test being done in 20 mins I waited for the nurse to give me my results back. About 40 mins passed and she informed me that my test came back positive with slight traces. I of course was destraught but wanted to take another test. Another 20 mins passed and my results came back negative. No one should have to go through the stress that I have been going through. I had a false positive HIV test and if I hadnt begged for another test my health care provider would have sent me to a specialist. I've been researching the causes that affect HIV tests and something as simple as a recent cold can cause your test to be positive. I also found the more false positives occur on rapid hiv tests than actual positives. The test has to be sensitive so that there are no false negatives. I have absolutely no confidence in this test and would recommend the Western Blot test for anyone. Yes its nice to get your results right away..but its better to get accurate results!!!

TESTING

I recently got tested over in Iraq for HIV and it was done with a RAPID test. Just like the article says my test came back in 20 minutes and it was negative. I even dragged my friend up there with me so he could get tested. At first he was hesitant but i explained the importance of knowing to him and he comprehended I was just trying to help him. I think ost people just don't want to know if they have anything because they are scared of the outcome. I told myself after today's test I would stress the importance of people getting tested and protecting themselves. Sex is a grwon up decision with life threatening consequences and I definately larned my lesson when it comes to being with one partner and using a condom at ALL times. Well I said what was on my mind. Hope this helps someone

Rapid HIV Tests

I'm still waiting to hear if they're on the open market, but I understand that Calypte Biomedical makes about the most accurate test out there. It has been approved in some countries. Their rate of false positives are virtually nil.

Their rate of false negatives, likewise.

HIV alternative treatment

Advanced Alternative HIV Treatment Bio-Tech

Planet earth is technologically advanced and developed more than ever before. Electricity, Nuclear, DNA, Electromagnetic Radiation, Oxygen is all being used to treat and cure several viral infections in hospitals and clinics but unfortunately none of such technologies have ever been widely used on HIV.

Some say, the above technologies are too expensive to be adopted in Africa, some say they don’t know if the technology would work on HIV.

Here at Savec Health Systems in Belfast UK, we researched and developed alternative medicines commonly used for treatment of viral infections. One of our products is omnivir, a medical device that generates antiviral active oxygen, also known as medical ozone.

HIV, just like any other retro-virus has a lipid protective skin which is vulnerable to active antiviral oxygen / medical ozone . Once the HIV protective skin is damaged, the virus will be inhibited and rendered unproductive thus it cant make more copies or replicate itself and it eventually dies.

Active oxygen deactivates and eventually kills the HIV by destroying its protective skin. Using omnivir medicine properly will help to reduce the HIV viral load in the body, enabling the body to fight opportunistic infections on its own. Omnivir gas is quickly absorbed into the whole body and lymph, even into the bone marrow where it acts against the viruses. The active oxygen’s destructiveness nature on HIV, virus and bacteria is partly attributed to the oxidation (burning of viruses) of unsaturated bonds in the phospholipids and lipoprotein architecture of the bacteria, viruses. All viruses cant live in oxygen , (they breathe nitrogen) , thus surrounding them with highly active form of oxygen / medical ozone will quickly inactivate and kill them.

Because omnivir gas can oxidise (burn) a wide spectrum of ailment causing organisms (pathogens), it is therefore very helpful for recovery from AIDS and Opportunistic Infections. When a patient is diagnosed with AIDS, literally she will be suffering from several conditions, from karposi skin cancer to diarrhoea (see HIV symptoms). Omnivir gas technology has been successfully used to treat majority of those AIDS conditions, some therapist across the world reporting 99.99% remission success rate, see www.savechealthsystems.com/omnivir.html for more information.

Omnivir treatment gas does not only kill HIV or opportunistic infections, but also helps to boost the immune systems by raising the CD4 count. The immune system contains different types of cells that help protect the body from infection. One of these types of specialized cells are called the CD4 or T-cells. HIV attacks these types of cells and uses them to make more copies / multiply. And in doing so, HIV weakens the immune system, making it unable to protect the body from illness and infection. The less the CD4 cell count the more you are susceptible to AIDS causing infections. Using omnivir will h

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Home HIV Testing

For the home testing kit there is also an Express version of the Home Access kit that is slightly more expensive but comes with a pre-paid FedEx envelope for mailing your blood sample to the laboratory. This cuts the test results time down to the next day. I would hate for people to opt out of the home test option thinking that it will always take a week for the results.

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