Give Consumer Direct a call:
http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/
They'll take your details and put you in touch with a Trading Standards officer. And they _will_ come down like a ton of shit on anyone who messes you around. They're quite good like that:-)
The quick tests still require an incubation period to test for early signs of the infection. A test taken the day after infection would almost certainly come back with a false negative. The best tests I've seen can obtain a reasonably accurate detection a week after the initial infection. Unfortunately by then its too late to do anything.
I'd advise anyone who might be at risk of HIV infection to read up on PEP. It's often kept in supply at hospitals for accidental needle pricks.
http://www.pep.chapsonline.org.uk/
Your mother wasn't offered PEP? I thought that was standard practice now for anyone coming into possible contact with HIV, since if taken with 72 hours offers an 80% reduction in the chance of contracting the disease. Also to reliably find out the crazy lady's HIV status reliably would have taken around a month after the last known possible infection. There are tests that give results in around a week - but they are known to have a much higher risk of false positive/negative.
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Give Consumer Direct a call: http://www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/ They'll take your details and put you in touch with a Trading Standards officer. And they _will_ come down like a ton of shit on anyone who messes you around. They're quite good like that :-)
The quick tests still require an incubation period to test for early signs of the infection. A test taken the day after infection would almost certainly come back with a false negative. The best tests I've seen can obtain a reasonably accurate detection a week after the initial infection. Unfortunately by then its too late to do anything. I'd advise anyone who might be at risk of HIV infection to read up on PEP. It's often kept in supply at hospitals for accidental needle pricks. http://www.pep.chapsonline.org.uk/
Your mother wasn't offered PEP? I thought that was standard practice now for anyone coming into possible contact with HIV, since if taken with 72 hours offers an 80% reduction in the chance of contracting the disease. Also to reliably find out the crazy lady's HIV status reliably would have taken around a month after the last known possible infection. There are tests that give results in around a week - but they are known to have a much higher risk of false positive/negative.