Category: General Health
Question: My friend went to UCH the clinic where they test and treat disease like HIV and other things now she found out that her friend whom she had sex with was HIV negative but she still feels some type of way she was prescribed PEP drugs from the hospital because she demanded for it Now shes paranoid that she got tested with a used needle Can this actually happen in such a standard place
Answer: Hello 

Good morning Thanks for using wellvis

Is it that she feels that she is positive or that her friend is positive  

Standard practice does not allow for reusing needles that have already been used on someone else 

And again the needle should be opened in her presence before usage 

I suggest that she goes to another reputable diagnostic Centre and run the tests again to allay her anxiety 

I hope this helps 

Cheers
Category: General Health
Question: My friend went to UCH the clinic where they test and treat disease like HIV and other things now she found out that her friend whom she had sex with was HIV negative but she still feels some type of way she was prescribed PEP drugs from the hospital because she demanded for it Now shes paranoid that she got tested with a used needle Can this actually happen in such a standard place
Answer: Hello 

To clarify your friend had sex with with someone who is HIV negative and then went to get HIV screening test done she insisted on get Post Exposure Prophylaxis despite testing negative as well 
Now shes paranoid she got tested with a used needle at University College Hospital Ibadan 

First of all I cannot speak categorically on this but there is almost no chance that she would have been tested with a used needle especially in a facility such as UCH Also all needles are discarded after use Usually we encourage people insist that a new needle or lancet is opened in their presence just before the test is done 

If nothing else happened outside the history you have given and no other chances of exposure to HIV had occurred I dont see the need for PEP Is she still on the drug

To reiterate theres a very very low possibility that she was tested with a used needle even much lower at a reputable facility like UCH 

Cheers