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If he will not go, ask your clinic what they can do. Some services can arrange treatment for a partner without them attending, and where they cannot, partner notification can at least get him a letter telling him to be tested.
You understood correctly. It is a recognised approach for certain bacterial infections where the partner is treated without a separate consultation, usually because getting them through the door is the bottleneck.
Whether it is available depends entirely on where you are. Some places do it routinely, some do it in limited circumstances, some not at all.
The headlines are usually about a single unusual isolate somewhere in the world. Real, worth watching, not a description of the average appointment.
Also worth remembering that a positive test at three months does not automatically mean someone cheated. It usually means the treatment window was not respected on one side. Have that conversation before the other one.
The second application, if your product calls for one, is part of completing treatment. Not after the first round.
Worth raising with your clinician rather than treating as settled. The honest summary is that it probably does not help, not that quitting will clear them.
Which is exactly why PrEP programmes include regular STI screening as part of the monitoring rather than as an optional extra. The people who designed the programme assumed this question would come up.
Several things at once. HIV testing regularly, because taking PrEP while unknowingly positive is the situation the schedule exists to prevent. Kidney function, because that is the main thing to keep an eye on with some regimens. And routine screening for other infections, since PrEP does nothing about those.
Describe the old reaction precisely. Feeling sick on a course years ago is a very different conversation from hives or swelling, and people label both as allergy.
Part of the delay is which test gets used. Looking at a sample under a microscope is quick and cheap but misses a lot of cases, whereas the molecular tests are considerably more sensitive.
So months of negatives can mean it genuinely was not there, or that it was never looked for with a test capable of finding it. Worth asking which one was run on your samples, and worth saying plainly if repeated treatment for something else has not changed anything.
One thing the timing conversation usually misses, and it is the one that is actually urgent: if HIV is a possibility and the exposure was in the last three days, that is not a waiting question at all.
PEP has to be started within 72 hours and the guidance treats it as an emergency, so it is a same day call rather than something to schedule. If you are outside that window it stops being an option and everything else here about test timing applies.