How to test for HIV? Here's how to test for HIV yourself

AIDS is a disease with a very high mortality rate worldwide, comparable to cancer. It is a fatal chronic infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, with an infection rate of almost 100%. So, how can we self-test for AIDS?

First, you need to check whether you have the following high-risk behaviors:

Those with complicated sexual life, homosexuality, drug abuse or sharing syringes with others, history of infection with needles or blood products infected with HIV, mother being an AIDS patient, etc.

If a high-risk person exhibits two or more of the following conditions, you should be highly alert:

Recent weight loss of more than 10%, chronic diarrhea or cough for more than one month, persistent or intermittent fever for more than one month, enlarged lymph nodes that can be felt throughout the body, recurrent herpes zoster or chronic disseminated herpes simplex infection, or oropharyngeal candidal infection.

Go to the hospital for HIV-1 antibody testing

If the ELISA test results are positive twice in a row, WB test is performed for confirmation. If the human immunodeficiency virus can be isolated from the blood, mononuclear cells and cerebrospinal fluid, it can be used to determine whether the person is infected with AIDS.