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• Quality of health services is key in encouraging or discouraging people from HIV testing in Africa

  The uptake of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa is influenced by the quality and manner in which health services are delivered, according to a review of 42 qualitative...

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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...

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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...

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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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• Dramatic improvements in HIV testing are possible – local leadership and multiple initiatives required

  In Brighton & Hove the proportion of new HIV diagnoses which are made outside of sexual health and antenatal clinics has increased from 25.7% in 2000 to 57.8% in 2012, driven by improvements in HIV testing in primary care ...

  16 May 2013 | Roger Pebody

• Blackmail, violence and stigma restrict access to sexual health services for gay men, Global Health and Rights Study reports

  The Global Forum for MSM and HIV has released an analysis of its 2012 Global Men’s Health and Rights Study (GMHRS) concentrating on young men under 30 who have sex with men (MSM), complementing the full report which came out ...

  01 May 2013 | Gus Cairns

• Training for GPs can increase HIV testing rate

  A multifaceted educational intervention for doctors and practice nurses working in general practice in London led to a tripling in the number of HIV tests provided, researchers report in an open-access article in the May issue of Sexually Transmitted Infections. Guidelines ...

  22 April 2013 | Roger Pebody

• No increase in sexual risk taking by gay men in England, 2001 to 2008

  Analysis of Gay Men’s Sex Survey data shows that, overall, the proportion of men reporting unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) did not change between the 2001 and 2008 surveys. There was an increase in the number of men with diagnosed ...

  10 April 2013 | Roger Pebody

• Recruitment through social networks is an efficient way to increase demand for HIV testing among high-risk groups

  A pilot project which used a peer recruitment strategy, financial incentives and the involvement of people living with HIV has demonstrated that this approach can increase demand for HIV testing services and efficiently identify people with HIV, report Sandra ...

  29 March 2013 | Roger Pebody

• Quality of health services is key in encouraging or discouraging people from HIV testing in Africa

  The uptake of HIV testing in sub-Saharan Africa is influenced by the quality and manner in which health services are delivered, according to a review of 42 qualitative studies, published this month in BMC Public Health. Perceived problems with confidentiality, ...

  26 March 2013 | Roger Pebody

• 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 ...

  21 March 2013 | 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

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• South Africa: Public HIV tests for MPs?

  The country’s lawmakers could find themselves having to publicly test for HIV if Parliament heeds a call by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

  17 May 2013 | Independent Online

• Test all new registrants for HIV in high-risk areas, GPs told

  GPs in areas with high rates of HIV infection should offer an HIV test to all new registrants to help improve early diagnosis and treatment of the disease, according to London’s GP sexual health leader.

  17 May 2013 | Pulse

• It Starts with Me

  We are at the start of a new era in stopping the spread of HIV. We know that the combination of regular testing, HIV treatment and condom use is the key to success. But tests, treatment and condoms are just tools – it is down to all of us as individuals to make it happen. It is what you do everyday that really makes a difference. You can stop HIV harming you and the ones you care about.

  15 May 2013 | Terrence Higgins Trust

• HPTN Annual Meeting: Is “PopART” research, or just good health practice?

  It sounds obvious, urgent, and ambitious: Make HIV counseling and testing as well as links to subsequent care and prevention services universally available, and watch the numbers of new infections drop steeply.

  14 May 2013 | Science Speaks

• S.F. Gives Castro Coupons to Gay Men Who Test for HIV

  San Francisco has launched a program encouraging gay men to get regular tests for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections by giving them coupons to businesses in the Castro District.

  13 May 2013 | Poz magazine news

• Alicia Keys launching HIV campaign aimed at women

  She has teamed up with Greater Than AIDS, a national public information group founded by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Black AIDS Institute, to launch her latest initiative -- a campaign aimed at reaching out specifically to American women.

  02 May 2013 | CNN

• Task force calls for routine HIV testing for all adults

  An influential U.S. panel is calling for HIV screening for all Americans aged 15 to 65, regardless of whether they are considered to be at high risk, a change that may help lift some of the stigma associated with HIV testing.

  30 April 2013 | Reuters

• UK: NHS funding crunch creates a challenge for GPs to improve public health

  The recent reforms to the English NHS present opportunities for GPs and other primary care staff to lead a more proactive approach to prevention and helping people remain healthy into old age but only if they are empowered to do so, argues a new report.

  26 April 2013 | Nuffield Trust

• Optimism as Prevention: THT launches new campaign that “can halt HIV within a generation”

  The optimism of the campaign is appealing, though somewhat naive. It may hopefully help destigmatising HIV, testing and treatment. Its emphasis on personal responsibility is welcome but will not always appeal to those most vulnerable, and ultimately, taking control over the epidemic will need more than just test, treat and use condoms.

  25 April 2013 | Incidence 0

• HIV spread in England 'can be halted within generation'

  The spread of HIV in England can be stopped within a generation, according to a new prevention campaign launched by the Department of Health.

  24 April 2013 | BBC News

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