A positive HIV test generally means that anti-HIV antibodies have been detected in the patient’s body, indicating that the patient may have been infected with HIV. However, it is usually only a test result and not a diagnosis.
When HIV-positive antibodies are used as a test result for initial screening, a confirmatory HIV test needs to be conducted at the CDC. If the result is negative, it means that the patient is not infected with HIV; if the confirmatory test is positive, it means that the patient has been infected with HIV and is HIV-infected; if the patient has developed fever, diarrhoea, reduced immunity, weight loss and other typical symptoms of HIV, it means that the infection has reached the stage of AIDS and is HIV-infected.