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Tag: HIV testing

It Took Two Weeks

Posted on November 30, 2011 by gar

Within a couple of months of coming out in 1988, I took my first HIV test.  It took two weeks to get the results at that time.  Two weeks.  They counseled you when they drew blood.  And they counseled you when they gave you the results.  But for two weeks, you were on your own….

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