What to Do After You’ve Been Tested for HIV

The window is long, but it’s open. Here’s how I coped and took control of my health

Sam McKenzie Jr.
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8 min readNov 27, 2017

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I’m not an HIV expert, but I do know what it feels like to wait to find out whether you’re positive.

The window period is the time it takes for the body to produce HIV antibodies that can be detected by an HIV antibody test —…

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