Test result | Further investigations |
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Any | Consider testing for non-HIV infections based on exposure risk |
Negative | None, if patient has not had HIV exposure risk within the past three months* |
Positive | Confirmatory HIV testing at an approved HIV testing laboratory is required† |
Indeterminate | Test result cannot be considered either preliminarily positive or negative; repeat point-of-care HIV testing or HIV testing at an approved HIV testing laboratory is required |
↵* Some jurisdictions may require parallel laboratory testing to confirm some or all negative results from point-of-care HIV testing.
↵† The proportion of false preliminary positive results vary by individual point-of-care HIV assay.
The likelihood of false preliminary positive tests results is increased in patients with a low pretest probability of HIV infection.