A. It's important to dispose of unused medication. To find out how, contact your state health agency or follow U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines for drug disposal.
The HIV test is designed to detect antibodies to HIV in your blood or saliva. Antibodies are proteins produced by your body when you have an infection and they help fight infection. If you are infected with HIV, your body makes very specific antibodies to fight the infection. The HIV antibodies are different from antibodies for the flu, hepatitis, or other infections.
1 HIV is an acronym for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. 2  HIV is a type of retrovirus, meaning that it hasâ¦. 3  HIV Testing Is An Important Way To Help Stop the Spread of HIV The HIV epidemic has developed into an event much larger and more complex than most of us expected when we first began to learn about AIDS.