
Anonymous
5 years
General question on covid19 test and HIV inter relationship
Hi …I may just overthinking about some questions in mind.I have a question in regard to the covid 19 & HIV. If a hive person attends any of covid test (swab/PCR/rapidtest) .does HIV will also be detected or It will detect only covid releated

Dr Nur Syuhada binti Zulkifli,
5 years
Greetings!
Thank you for your question. The COVID-19 test does not detects HIV. The method of detection uses polymerase chain reaction or rapid test kits which detects certain protein only available on the surface of the COVID-19 virus capsule. I hope this answers your question.
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