If you think that you might have AIDS, or you are planning on starting a new relationship with someone and are thinking of having sex, you will want to get tested for HIV and AIDS. The patient may have signs of hiv of a bleeding disorder in which there aren’t enough platelets in the blood (idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura).
If your doctor thinks you may have been infected, then you can determine the next step. For patients in that situation, I see two options. The first is to wait about six months after the illness to get tested for HIV. By that time, antibodies will show up on the ELISA test if you were infected. A downside is that the PCR test may come up positive when in fact you are not infected. So if you do get a positive result, the test should be repeated and followed up later with a traditional HIV blood test.
