What does HIV pending review mean?

HIV pending review is not necessarily infected with HIV, but it is suspicious and needs to be reviewed again. HIV pending review is generally a positive initial screening test, not a confirmatory test, the initial screening test has a certain false positive rate, that is, the initial screening is positive but not actually infected with HIV. HIV diagnosis is firstly screened for HIV antibodies, and if the confirmatory test is positive, the diagnosis can be confirmed. HIV to be reviewed, after further confirmatory tests, there are several possibilities, the first is HIV antibody positive confirmed diagnosis of AIDS; the second is not sure need to be regularly reviewed, if necessary, HIV nucleic acid test can be done, to avoid false negatives in the window and miss the test; the third is negative. HIV confirmatory reports are issued by the CDC after confirmatory tests are conducted. Once HIV infection is diagnosed, antiviral drugs should be applied as early as possible depending on the condition to be able to minimize HIV viral load as much as possible in order to prolong life.