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Transcription: Caption with the text “Me: well no matter the results i gotta stay positive right doc? The doctor who’s about to tell me my HIV test results:” Underneath is the meme of the monkey puppet looking away awkwardly

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Labs are now trained to avoid the positive-negative nomenclature, as it implies diagnosis which most lab tests are incapable to do on their own. Only licensed medical professionals can diagnose. Nowadays it's reactive or non-reactive, and other words depending on the kind of test. Specially with modern treatments, lot's of people live with HIV but would be nonreactive in all tests if they're under treatment. They still would be infected with the virus but won't be detected by labs, and probably would never get ill.

[-] Catoblepas 7 points 10 months ago
[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Hey what's the name of this meme?

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

HIV is a pretty unserious diagnosis nowadays. You basically have to take a shot in your butt every other month. Alternatively, a pill a day. These meds can have some long term effects sometimes like kidney damage, but there are different meds your doctor can try.

Sucks to have a chronic disease and having to take meds, but it's hardly a scary diagnosis these days.

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