A person's status about their HIV antibodies really is found simply by a blood test. The problem is that what someone says and what they actually do can be quite different. Someone who's very interested in having sex with a new partner that they just met is unfortunately more likely to lie and say, "Oh yeah I'm HIV negative; I just had the test last week." Well, the partner-to-be, hopefully, will say, you know, let's back off on this whole situation for a while. The person may say they're very interested in having sex with this new friend but they really should maybe go down to the public health department and get those free tests or some other place and get their tests and then find out for sure and then still use condoms until they're sure that their new sex partner is likely to be, or will be, monogamous with them. In other words, I tell people that after their sexual interest is started but before the actual sex happens, they should talk freely about their sexual partnerships in their pasts, their risks, and be willing to answer questions. I mean, it's intimate to have sex; it should be no less intimate in the talking. It certainly could happen that way. And then to go get the tests because, and then insist on condoms, until one is willing to bet their life, and then when they're ready to bet their life on the monogamous relationship, then do no condoms. And so the problem is very difficult to see how all that could happen in a very short time frame. It really can't. So people, if nothing else, insist on condoms even if they don't want to talk about HIV risks, even if they don't want to go down and get tests with their partner. I think those are things that this day and age that they should do if they have any chance at all but if nothing else then use a condom. Use it properly.