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  Tales of the late diagnosed

  Gus Cairns talks to four people who were diagnosed with HIV only just in time to save their lives – and the daughter of one who wasn’t. ...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Happy families

  Sally Farthing is an HIV specialist midwife at West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth, west London. She praises the measures – and the mothers – who together have sent...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  "How can the world accept us if we don't?" Improving testing rates in the UK African community

  HIV testing and late diagnosis rates in the UK African community will not improve unless we look at the wider reasons people don’t test, a community meeting...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Don’t live in ignorance: how do we expand HIV testing?

  Should everyone take an HIV test? Gus Cairns investigates. ...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Test early, test often…how could the UK improve its HIV testing rates?

  Although rates are improving, gay men in the UK still take HIV tests less often than their counterparts in comparable countries, and nearly half of African men with...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Main article: Making the world safe for more routine HIV testing

  Review of issues surrounding recommednations for more routine HIV antibody testing in resource-limited settings, including human rights arguments and proposals for mandatory testing, as well...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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• Self-testing and home treatment initiation triples uptake of HIV treatment in Malawi

  Offering people the opportunity to self-test at home and then start antiretroviral therapy after counselling at home, together with home delivery of antiretroviral drugs, increased the number of people linked to care after testing and started on treatment almost ...

  12 hours ago | Keith Alcorn

• Media campaign on acute HIV infection symptoms has limited impact

  A advertising campaign and website that aimed to raise awareness among gay men in Seattle, Washington, of the symptoms of acute HIV infection was recalled by a quarter of the target audience and had no impact on gay men’s ...

  14 February 2013 | Roger Pebody

• Couples HIV testing and counselling prompts rapid switch to consistent condom use in South African study

  HIV testing and counselling of couples quickly led to consistent condom use among serodiscordant couples in stable relationships in South Africa, researchers report in the advance online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.  In this secondary analysis of self-reported ...

  05 December 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• HPA urges further action on HIV testing to reduce numbers undiagnosed and diagnosed late

  The Health Protection Agency (HPA) issued its annual epidemiological report yesterday, and drew particular attention to the need for improvement in HIV testing rates – six of its eight recommendations concern testing. The headline findings concerning new HIV diagnoses were reported ...

  30 November 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Very high rates of HIV infection among gay/bisexual male youths in the United States

  Over a quarter of new HIV infections in the US involve young people aged between 13 and 24, investigators report in the November 27th edition of MMWR Weekly Report. Approximately 75% of these infections involved gay and bisexual young ...

  29 November 2012 | Michael Carter

• Over-the-counter blood test for HIV may be feasible, Spanish study finds

  A study from Madrid has found that 92% of people taking an HIV test could obtain a valid result by testing themselves with the kind of fingerprick point-of-care blood test used at clinics, without any instruction except the brochure ...

  26 October 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Huge differences in HIV mortality rates in US according to race, social and economic status

  New US research has revealed enormous differences in HIV mortality rates between patients according to their race and social and economic status. Published in the online edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine, the study showed that mortality rates ...

  19 October 2012 | Michael Carter

• Regular HIV testing becoming the norm among gay men in Scotland

  The number of gay men testing for HIV in Scotland increased significantly between 2000 and 2010, a study published in HIV Medicine shows. The percentage of men reporting a test in the previous year increased from 27 to ...

  24 September 2012 | Michael Carter

• Couples-based HIV testing acceptable to MSM in Cape Town

  Couples-based HIV counselling and testing would be welcomed by gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in Cape Town, according to an article published in AIDS and Behavior. Investigators used focus groups and in-depth individual interviews to ...

  08 September 2012 | Michael Carter

• US youth, heterosexual men and African Americans losing out on HIV treatment benefits

  A new study presented at the 19th International AIDS Conference shows that young people, African Americans, and heterosexual men have particularly low rates of retention in care and viral suppression and that there are also inequalities between cities. A previous study published ...

  08 August 2012 | Gus Cairns

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• NEW YORK: 30% of N.Y. HIV Women Get 'Late' Diagnosis

  New York state health officials say that approximately 30 percent of the state’s women who are newly diagnosed with HIV receive an AIDS diagnosis at the same time or soon after their initial diagnosis.

  13 March 2013 | CDC National Prevention Information Network

• US: HIV Awareness Rising Among Urban Gays

  More gay and bisexual men infected with HIV are aware they have the virus, at least in 20 major urban areas, a researcher said here.

  07 March 2013 | MedPage Today HIV/AIDS

• I'm HIV-Negative

  Majorities tend to be silent, just like the overwhelming majority of gay men -- that is, the (approximately) four out of five gay men who are HIV-negative -- who rarely initiate conversations about HIV.

  27 February 2013 | Huffington Post (blog)

• The HIV treatment cascade – patching the leaks to improve HIV prevention

  The concept of an HIV treatment cascade has emerged as a way to identify gaps in the continuum, which are preventing people from realizing the treatment and prevention benefits of antiretroviral therapy.

  20 February 2013 | CATIE Prevention in Focus

• Dr Alan McOwan: Testing times

  You are safer having unsafe sex with someone who is HIV positive and being treated than with someone who doesn’t know their status, says Dr Alan McOwan

  20 February 2013 | Gay Star News

• Leno bill modernizes California's HIV confidentiality laws

  SB 249 protects the privacy of HIV and AIDS patients while allowing the disclosure of important medical information under limited circumstances in order to better coordinate and transition care. The bill also updates the state’s confidentiality requirements for HIV tests to ensure that all existing and new testing types are protected.

  18 February 2013 | San Diego LGBT Weekly

• Routine HIV Testing in U.S. Healthcare Settings?

  Despite the 2006 CDC recommendation, offering routine HIV testing is not universal — even among HIV care providers.

  12 February 2013 | Journal Watch

• National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Why We Must Do More

  Today marks the thirteenth annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. For the past 13 years, the day has been used to raise education about the disease among African Americans while encouraging blacks from all walks of life to get “tested, involved and treated.”

  08 February 2013 | PolicyMic

• Tapping into online communities brings dramatic results in health

  Operated by the Chelsea and Westminster hospital's sexual health centre in Soho, 56 Dean Street, in conjunction with the remote healthcare specialist DrThom and the gay dating site Gaydar, the Dean Street at Home initiative uses the principles of online marketing to diagnose HIV efficiently through careful targeting.

  07 February 2013 | The Guardian

• Is the UK Ready for HIV Home Testing Kits?

  Despite the logistical and regulatory minefield, I would argue that we need the option of home testing. What we are currently doing simply isn't working!

  07 February 2013 | Huffington Post

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