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A comment on A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows. Parent comment

Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by esf on Sunday October 21, 2018 @07:24PM (#18270965)
The pill was already part of HIV trratment, it does nothing to change the effectiveness of HIV tests.

The only unknown would be whether if you are one of the very, very few people that manages to contract HIV while taking prep, your antibody response is different during that initial window.

But: Anyone in that situation is already covered by the questions about recent partners and already is not donating if answering the existing questions in good faith. If they are donating in this situation at all they are already just ignoring the questions.

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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by dogma1138 on Monday October 22, 2018 @03:52AM (#18272896)
>The pill was already part of HIV trratment, it does nothing to change the effectiveness of HIV tests.

Where is that stated?

>But: Anyone in that situation is already covered by the questions about recent partners and already is not donating if answering the existing questions in good faith. If they are donating in this situation at all they are already just ignoring the questions.

I think you missed the entire point of the GP this isn’t about someone acting in good faith or rationally.

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