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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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• Treatment as prevention is starting to work in parts of Africa

  A longitudinal study from KwaZulu Natal province in South Africa is the first study from the global south to relate an increase in the proportion of adults on HIV treatment to a fall in HIV incidence, the 19th Conference on ...

  18 March 2012 | Gus Cairns

• English public health indicators to include late HIV diagnosis

  The Department of Health this week announced the 66 ‘indicators’ with which the performance of the new public health system will be measured. To the relief of HIV campaigners, these include a measure of late HIV diagnosis. From 2013, management ...

  24 January 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Home-based counselling and testing identifies people in need of treatment earlier

  Home-based HIV counselling and testing (HBCT) was shown to be the most effective gateway for getting those who tested HIV-positive into care at an early stage of HIV disease, before they became ill, compared to voluntary counselling and testing (VCT), ...

  10 January 2012 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• High rate of new diagnoses when gay men phoned and asked to come back for sexual health check-up

  It’s feasible for sexual health clinics to take steps to invite ‘high-risk’ patients to come back for re-screening, and doing so leads to a high number of new diagnoses being made, London clinicians report in the December issue of ...

  05 December 2011 | Roger Pebody

• 3000 UK gay men diagnosed with HIV in 2010 – the highest number ever reported

  Against a background of fewer diagnoses among heterosexuals infected abroad, the number of gay men diagnosed with HIV in the UK continues to rise, the Health Protection Agency announced today. Moreover, one quarter of them had recently acquired their ...

  29 November 2011 | Roger Pebody

• Influential community figures can increase HIV testing by couples

  Invitations given by influential people, supported by leaders of respected networks in the community prompted one in five couples, living together or not, to go for joint HIV counselling and testing in two neighbourhoods in Kigali, Rwanda American and Rwandan ...

  28 October 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• Mobile testing units show success in linking people to HIV care, treatment

  Linkage to facility-based HIV care from a mobile testing unit is feasible, South African researchers report in the advance online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. In a stratified random sample of 192 newly diagnosed individuals who had ...

  23 September 2011 | Carole Leach-Lemens

• House of Lords says UK needs new national HIV prevention campaign, bigger push for testing

  The United Kingdom government must give much greater priority to HIV prevention, and consider a new national campaign to inform the general public of the risks of HIV infection, according to a report issued today by the House of ...

  01 September 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• Testing project using social networks in rural Tanzania effective in identifying people with undiagnosed infection

  A pilot project in which people with HIV encouraged their friends and neighbours to be tested for HIV succeeded in recruiting people with a very high rate of undiagnosed HIV, Elizabeth Reddy of Duke University told the Sixth International ...

  19 July 2011 | Roger Pebody

• People diagnosed with HIV who have never accessed medical care are often dissatisfied with post-test counselling

  A qualitative study conducted with people who have tested HIV-positive but never had HIV medical care in the United States has found that many of these individuals had poor experiences with testing, counselling and referral services. Health professionals were ...

  29 June 2011 | Roger Pebody

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• Most patients in Singapore say 'no' to HIV test

  PUBLIC hospitals, since 2008, offer routine screening for HIV, but their patients do not seem to want it. A recent study by Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) found that eight in 10 inpatients refused to get tested

  21 May 2012 | Jakarta Post

• Clergy can fight HIV on faith-friendly terms

  In the United States, where blacks bear a disproportionate burden of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, black religious institutions could help turn the tide. In a new study based on dozens of interviews and focus groups with 38 of Philadelphia's most influential black religious leaders, physicians and public health researchers find that traditional barriers to preaching about HIV prevention could give way to faith-friendly messages about getting tested and staying on treatment.

  18 May 2012 | Science Daily

• FDA panel backs OraSure's In-Home HIV test

  A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts concluded that OraSure Technologies Inc's over-the-counter, in-home HIV test is reasonably safe and effective for determining whether someone has the AIDS virus.

  16 May 2012 | Reuters

• Michel Sidibé: Giving Power to Couples to End the AIDS Epidemic

  For the AIDS response, couples testing and counselling should be one more turning point to expand options to strengthen the impact of HIV prevention and treatment.

  08 May 2012 | Huffington Post

• Late breakers at treatment as prevention workshop: home-based testing, economic benefits of ART, and HIV services for men explored

  The late breaker session at the 2nd International Treatment as Prevention Workshop in Vancouver Wednesday offered some interesting insights relevant to HIV treatment scale up. Home-based testing Nathan Ford from Medicines Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors Without Borders) offered findings from a meta-analysis of home-based testing studies.  

  30 April 2012 | Science Speaks

• Massachusetts Allows Verbal Consent for HIV Tests

  Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has signed into law “An Act to Increase Routine Screening of HIV.”

  30 April 2012 | Poz magazine news

• Treatment as prevention: Action in China

  Dr. Zunyou Wu, Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), offered the audience at the 2nd International Treatment as Prevention Workshop in Vancouver new information about China’s response to new evidence on treatment as prevention.

  25 April 2012 | Science Speaks

• Getting Heterosexual Black Men Involved in HIV Prevention

  In order to fully address this epidemic head on, we have to include heterosexual African-American men. But how do we go about doing this given the stigma and homophobia in the black community? What work is being done now that is making an impact among this demographic? And where are the heterosexual men living with HIV who will speak out?

  24 April 2012 | The Body

• Evidence and resources to commission expanded HIV testing in priority medical services in high prevalence areas

  This document aims to provide current and future commissioners with a concise overview of the evidence of acceptability, feasibility, clinical benefit and cost-effectiveness of expanding HIV testing in general medical admissions and new registrants in general practice.

  23 April 2012 | Health Protection Agency

• Gauteng goes big with HIV tests

  The Gauteng health department aims to test 3-million people for HIV and to put almost 1-million people on to treatment in the new financial year.

  16 April 2012 | Sowetan

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