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Old 07-03-2012, 05:45 PM  
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Originally Posted by epitome View Post
Pharmacies across the nation are soon going to offer free HIV testing in new agreement with CDC.

Producers have always been able to order the same tests that they use at clinics, you just had to order them overseas. Some used them as an added precaution.

It's a totally different test though and only tests for antibodies, rather than the presence of HIV. It can take months and months to develop antibodies so producers should never rely on at home or even clinic testing unless it's the more expensive test that checks for the presence of HIV.
the old months and months window thing is a red herring really its so small a number as to be insignificant add to that that the current PCR tests that test for the virus are flawed in that an infected person on anti virals will have a viral load too low to detect and can show as negative even though they arent. this is a far bigger risk than the exceedingly rare person who takes more than a few weeks to test positive with oraquick.

I like the idea of oraquick prior to every shoot. I checked and I should be able to get them for around 15 bucks per test in q/100
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