Taking an HIV test

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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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  HIV home tests – how will they be used?

  This week the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, which will be sold over the counter and used without medical supervision, received its final approval from the Food and...

  From:  News

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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

Taking an HIV test in your own words

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  A life full of laughs and love

  I was 24, in my final year at college and was planning to go to university when I was diagnosed HIV positive in a small...

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  Finding out

  The day was 9th of November, 2009; I was having my college lesson on the concepts of computer script languages – what a day it...

  From:In your own words

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  Seroconversion

  I was given my diagnosis over the telephone after spending four days in hospital with meningitis. I now realise it wasn’t meningitis, it was an...

  From:In your own words

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  Change of direction

  I moved to Manchester with my partner to start a course in nursing with the intention of becoming a midwife. Initially everything was peachy. But...

  From:In your own words

Taking an HIV test news from aidsmap

• 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

• 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

• Will MSM use over-the-counter rapid HIV tests to screen sexual partners?

  If men who have sex with men (MSM) have the option of using rapid HIV testing to screen potential sexual partners, will they do so? Until recently this was a hypothetical question. But in early July, the US Food and ...

  26 July 2012 | Kelly Safreed-Harmon

• Why Zambians don't test and treat

  A study amongst 2443 people in Zambia, recruited from HIV clinics and community organisations, found that social ostracism, rejection by sexual partners and fear of not being able to handle antiretroviral therapy (ART) were the reasons people most often ...

  26 July 2012 | Gus Cairns

• HIV home tests – how will they be used?

  This week the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, which will be sold over the counter and used without medical supervision, received its final approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), meaning that it can be legally sold in the ...

  07 July 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Routine, non-targeted HIV testing feasible and acceptable in UK, study concludes

  A London-based study in which HIV tests were offered in a non-targeted manner to as many patients as possible between the ages of 16 and 65 has concluded that routine HIV testing in higher-prevalence areas in the UK ...

  02 July 2012 | Gus Cairns

• US regulators set to approve HIV home-testing kit

  HIV home testing is soon likely to become legal in the United States, following a unanimous vote in support of the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test by a panel of experts advising the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The test ...

  16 May 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Results of tests for recent HIV infection can be safely given to patients

  Results from the Recent Infection Testing Algorithm (RITA) can be discussed with newly-diagnosed patients, UK clinicians say. Although RITA was designed for use in monitoring at a population level and does not give consistently accurate results to individuals, sharing the ...

  23 March 2012 | 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

• South Africans who have tested for HIV are more likely to discuss sexual health issues

  South Africans who have ever tested for HIV are more likely than others to have discussed HIV and sexual health issues with others, researchers report in the April issue of Sexually Transmitted Infections. However those who tested HIV-positive were ...

  04 April 2011 | Roger Pebody

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Taking an HIV test news selected from other sources

• HIV Treatment During Primary Infection Raises CD4s - and Further Questions

  Two new studies, each published in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), suggest that treating HIV with antiretrovirals (ARVs) within four to six months after infection helps raise CD4 counts, but neither study was able to make an overwhelming argument for starting therapy so early.

  23 January 2013 | AIDSMeds

• Botswana: Public health bill shocking and regressive

  The Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS (BONELA), is shocked by the introduction of a Public Health Bill which our Parliament is currently debating. This Bill has some provisions that have no place in a democratic and modern day Botswana. It has provisions that are counter-productive, discriminatory, unconstitutional and barbaric.

  10 December 2012 | International HIV/AIDS Alliance / Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS

• HIV Testing At Home In Africa Is Highly Acceptable

  Many people in sub-Saharan Africa are accepting voluntary counseling and testing for HIV at home, showing the potential this method has of dramatically increasing awareness of HIV status among people who are undiagnosed.

  06 December 2012 | Medical News Today

• Serbia man wins false HIV compensation

  A Serbian court has ordered a hospital to pay 4,000 euros ($5,200) in compensation to a man who claimed his life was ruined when he was falsely diagnosed with HIV, a newspaper reported Saturday.

  26 November 2012 | The Nation

• The fear of testing for HIV still exists!

  A Ugandan female friend confided in me: “I fear to take an HIV test, because I may not have the energy to move back home when I am found to be HIV positive. I don’t know my status and I rather not know.”

  24 October 2012 | Key Correspondents

• Watchdog criticises maker of home HPV test for misleading advertising

  A company that offers home testing kits for a virus that can cause cervical cancer has been criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for misleading customers and making irresponsible claims.

  18 October 2012 | The Guardian

• Pre-marital HIV testing is a shortcut to nowhere

  The Maharashtra government’s proposal is aimed at shielding women but it could end up adding to their vulnerability.

  15 October 2012 | Tehelka

• Exquisite Corpse: The Stigma of HIV and AIDS

  "Sofia, Samira and I were waiting impatiently to get our HIV test results. The atmosphere in the waiting room seemed quiet and unpleasant. I could observe fear and frustration on everybody's faces; a fear of being HIV positive, a fear of becoming an outcast among our friends, our families and our society.... "...[Sofia] wasn’t crying just because of being infected with HIV, she was crying because she knew the awful life that was coming. A life of being prejudged unjustly, being accused of what she was not responsible for, and being treated like a cheap prostitute...After the painful experience Sofia went through, she left the city the next morning, and since then nobody has heard from her."

  10 October 2012 | City College News

• Canada: Protecting your privacy around HIV

  The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) launched two new guides on HIV testing and patient rights, summarizing issues such as informed consent, non-nominal (no-name) testing, safeguarding medical privacy, limiting who can view medical information, and information about the criminal law and nondisclosure to sexual partners.

  28 September 2012 | Xtra

• Home HIV Test now available

  The OraQuick home HIV test is now available at CVS, Rite-Aid, Walgreens drugstores, along with Kroger and Walmart. And if it hasn’t been distributed to your local store, you can get it online directly form OraQuick.

  27 September 2012 | Box Turtle Bulletin

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