How Accurate is Rapid HIV Testing?

Oraquick Advance Rapid Antibody Test

With an estimated 1 in Americans infected with the HIV virus and not knowing about it, testing that provides a fast and cheap way to detect the virus is important to the sexual health community.  Rapid results are a great thing but not when it can give you false positives.  Imagine you get a test and it comes but positive, yet you do not have the virus.  In many cities this has happened to people like you.