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Wikipedia says that the false positive rate of the standard ELISA test is only 1.5% (thats < 6%) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test#Accuracy_of_HIV_testin...

and a "positive" result should be confirmed by a Western Blot test. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_test#Interpreting_antibody_...



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