False-Positive HIV Test Results [May 2018]

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.), Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention.
• Description:
  When a person is not infected with HIV but receives a positive test result, that result is considered a false positive. Generally, HIV tests have high specificity, meaning that there are few false-positive results and most uninfected individuals are classified as uninfected by the test. If 1,000 uninfected people are tested with an HIV test and 4 have false-positive results, the HIV test’s specificity is 99.6% (996 true negative test results/1,000 HIV uninfected persons tested).
• Subjects:
  Diagnosis, Differential False Positive Reactions HIV Infections/diagnosis
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP)
• Division:
  DHAP - Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:268ec053d4bb85f563e6a79d5fe0f776d95448a064078df3dd2b85006fee5b9c96140085f21076259e497e5e04df22d0cf0f1960951d970392bb86b0074b3649
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/60906/cdc_60906_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 130.26 KB ]