“How conclusive is an HIV rapid test?”

HIV rapid tests are quiet reliable but you should get a confirmatory test through your doctor

Inconclusive. You need to have HIV reflex with RNA titer.

It should be accurate. If uncertain then get tested by a medical laboratory.

First, it is important to know that None of the available HIV tests can detect HIV immediately after infection. If you think you’ve been exposed to HIV in the last 72 hours, talk to your health care provider about prophylaxis with PreP tablets. The time between when a person may have been exposed to HIV and when a test can tell for sure whether you have the virus is called the window period. The window period varies from person to person and depends on the type of test used to detect HIV. A nucleic acid test (NAT)can usually tell you if you have HIV infection 10 to 33 days after an exposure. This is a vein sample. An antigen/antibody test performed by a laboratory on blood from a vein can detect HIV infection 18 to 45 days after an exposure. Antigen/antibody tests done with blood from a finger will not detect virus with certainty until after 90 days. So, finger prick negative may be false for 90 days. Vein Antibody tests can take 90 days to detect HIV infection after an exposure. The rapid tests and self-tests are antibody tests and thus are not accurate for ninety days. In general, antibody tests that use blood from a vein can detect HIV sooner after infection than tests done with blood from a finger prick or saliva.