Taking an HIV test

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

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

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Taking an HIV test in your own words

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  A life full of laughs and love

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Taking an HIV test news from aidsmap

• 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

• Gay men reduce their risk behaviour after HIV diagnosis, studies find, but disagree on how much by

  Two studies presented at last month’s 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2011) both found that gay men diagnosed with HIV considerably reduce the amount of sex they have that could pass on their infection. However the ...

  25 March 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Self-testing for HIV proves highly acceptable in Malawi

  Self-testing for HIV under supervision using an oral test proved highly acceptable in Malawi, and could form the basis for wider and more regular testing in countries severely affected by HIV, researchers reported on Monday at the Eighteenth Conference on ...

  28 February 2011 | Keith Alcorn

• Text message reminders double HIV re-testing rates in gay men

  Text message reminders significantly increase re-testing rates in gay men for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), Australian investigators report in the online edition of Sexually Transmitted Infections.  Testing rates were twice as high among men who ...

  22 February 2011 | Michael Carter

• HIV screening outside specialist settings is feasible, acceptable and effective in UK

  The universal offer of a HIV test in UK general practice and hospital settings is highly feasible and acceptable to patients, researchers have concluded. Moreover, when conducted in areas of relatively high HIV prevalence, the interventions ...

  08 December 2010 | Roger Pebody

• South Africa to launch mass HIV testing drive in April, to test 15 million in one year

  The South African government will launch the world’s largest HIV testing drive in mid-April, with thousands of new testing sites, a national media campaign and over 4000 health workers brought out of retirement to counsel and ...

  25 March 2010 | Keith Alcorn

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Taking an HIV test news selected from other sources

• Is the U.S. ready for home HIV tests?

  At the pharmacy, you can buy anything from tea kettles to Tylenol. But what if you could buy a rapid HIV test over the counter and test yourself in the privacy of your own home?

  21 May 2012 | Inside Science

• 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

• Odd Blood: Serodiscordancy, or, Life With an HIV-Positive Partner

  Chad, my boyfriend, types to me from the Hyatt on New Jersey Avenue, "I am hiv positive." We study the screen together, 1426 miles apart. The cursor of my chat window blinks for me. I'm not stunned, or even much scared, really; definitely not sickened, repulsed.

  05 April 2012 | The Atlantic

• KENYA: Better training needed for counsellors of HIV-discordant couples

  The Kenyan government has issued guidelines on counselling for HIV-discordant couples, but many counsellors in smaller, rural health centres remain untrained.

  05 April 2012 | IRIN Plus News

• Uganda: LGBT people risk arrest to attend secret HIV testing session

  A leading LGBT health coordinator, who asked their organization not to be named and preferred to be known by the pseudo name of Valentino, told www.keycorrespondents.org that his organization carries out VCT for LGBT every two months because mainstream health facilities are ‘hostile’ to LGBT.

  28 March 2012 | Key Correspondents

• High-street chemist Superdrug now offer rapid HIV testing across UK

  Two years ago Superdrug became the first high street retailer to offer HIV tests through its health clinics run by registered nurses in six stores - since then Superdrug’s nurses have performed over 600 tests. The service will now be available in 19 stores.

  26 March 2012 | Pink Paper

• When HIV privacy goes too far

  Despite vigorous efforts by physician lobbyists, the bill makes no change to the 1986 language that bans any sharing or release of HIV test information - even between physicians, and on electronic health records - without a patient’s explicit written consent each and every time.

  09 March 2012 | Boston.com

• HIV+? Don't worry, some UAE clinics will not tell the authorities

  Many clinics suspected of not informing health authority about positive cases.

  06 February 2012 | Emirates 24/7

• Testing for HIV together, hearing results together

  Newly dating and slightly anxious, two men bared their arms for blood tests and pondered the possibility that one of them, or both, could be infected with HIV. An innovative program — called Testing Together — would allow them to hear their test results minutes later, while sitting side by side.

  18 January 2012 | SFGate

• Jamaica - More Jamaicans getting tested for HIV, STIs

  THE Ministry of Health's National HIV/STI programme has seen a marked increase in the number of persons getting tested for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) -- which causes the AIDS -- and other sexually transmitted infections.

  14 January 2012 | Jamaica Observer

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