i have been to other boards and have talked to counselors over the phone and they have said that its hard for hiv to be transmited female to male. why is that?

also if some one had a postive elisa and an indetermiate western blot would that person be told they were negative?

thanks

i have been to other boards and have talked to counselors over the phone and they have said that its hard for hiv to be transmited female to male. why is that?

I think it's because during intercourse there are less fluids transferred from female to male. Therefore, less chance of infection from the female.

i have been to other boards and have talked to counselors over the phone and they have said that its hard for hiv to be transmited female to male. why is that?

also if some one had a postive elisa and an indetermiate western blot would that person be told they were negative?

thanks
The recipient of bodily fluids is more at risk, sperm and seminal fluid can carry quite a bit of virus particles. The state of a womans health is at issue in the transmission of hiv, eg, is the viral load high, does she have her menstruation, does she have other conditions such as herpes, syphlis, etc. It takes blood to blood or semen to blood to transmit hiv. In other words there has to be a portal for the virus to enter the body. It is not determined exactly how much hiv virus is present in vaginal fluids when the woman is undetectable. If a woman is postive and in good health and safe sex is always used then yes its less risk for transmission.

There can be extenuating circumstances for false positive, if the western blot was indeterminate then retest.....

Hope this answered your questions. :angel:

thanks for replying. would a person with a positive elisa and indetermediate western blot be told they were negative or would the test result be inconclusive?

they would not identify that person as positive or negative would they?

also i was restested find out monday

i am trying to figure out what my first results were. the health clinic told me i was negative but a western blot was run which meant i had a positive elisa and i am wondering whether or not the western blot was negative or indetermediate

In you're first post you said you're elisa was unreactive and you're western blot was inconclusive ( which would be due to lab error ) and the whole series of tests would have to be written off as ( VOID ) and require a retest .
So lets look at all the angles first .....OK
1) if the elisa was unreactive and the western blot was inconclusive ( lab error )
Elisa is the more sensative test and it is so sensative it could react befor the westen blot has a chance to react . And also that's why the elisa is also the first test given so as far as the western blot reacting befor the elisa ( IT DOESN'T HAPPEN ) unless it was due to ( LAB ERROR )
2) the elisa was inconclusive but the western blot was unreactive ..........
Elisa is a very very sensative test and even though hiv is the main antibody it looks for it can be tripped up by some similar antibodies or just a very high concentration of other ( similar ) antibodies and the reason for that is because you want ( if you were to be + ) to catch it as early as possable now if an elisa reacts then you're antibodies that the elisa has found will be put to the western blot test where they are tested on the hiv protien itself and if they attack it and the 2 ( P-24 ANTIGEN ) bars go off then that person is in fact positive .There actualy some people that will have a reactive elisa everytime and a non reactive western blot ( for reasons they still can't figure out ) and that means that those people are negative .
I think in you're last post you tested 5 months after the last posable exposure?
And if that's the case and you're a person of normal health and you're western blot is unreactive then you are negative .
In good health ...............
............ Lost Spirit ..............

i was tested 21 months after possible exposure. i know i was told i was negative but i cannot remember what the elisa and western blot said.i got tested again last monday and will out the results this monday almost 32 months after possible exposure

i am thinking that if i had a positive elisa and a indetermediate western blot i probably would of been ok with the results as long as i was told i was negative.now i no more about the 2 tests compared to when i first got tested and that worries me if that is what the test results came back as