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• 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

• Rapid HIV test performance poorer with oral fluid than blood, especially when prevalence is low

  The performance of OraQuick, a widely used rapid point-of-care test for HIV diagnosis, is slightly poorer when testing oral fluid samples than when testing blood samples, according to a meta-analysis published in the online edition of Lancet Infectious Diseases this ...

  25 January 2012 | Roger Pebody

• Rapid ‘combination’ test fails to detect many cases of acute HIV infection

  A rapid, point-of-care test, which aims to reduce the ‘window period’ through the detection of both antibodies and p24 antigen has poor performance in a clinical setting, researchers report in an article published online ahead of print by the ...

  06 January 2012 | Roger Pebody

• 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

• Is self-testing for HIV on the way in Africa?

  Self-testing for HIV using oral tests could radically increase HIV testing rates in tuberculosis programmes, TB researchers argued this weekend at the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health in Berlin. Similarly, community sputum collection points where individuals can go to ...

  15 November 2010 | Keith Alcorn

• NICE to recommend more HIV testing in primary care and in community settings

  In its first ever guidance related to HIV, the health watchdog NICE is likely to recommend that health services not concerned with sexual health take a greater role in offering HIV tests to black African people and to men ...

  08 October 2010 | Roger Pebody

• Nucleic acid testing can boost number of HIV infections detected in the community

  Nucleic acid testing increased the number of HIV infections detected by a community testing programme by almost a quarter, US investigators report in the Annals of Internal Medicine. “This study should motivate further research into the ...

  18 June 2010 | Michael Carter

• HIV testing technology in US needs to change or risk missing acute infections

  A fourth-generation HIV testing assay detected almost two-thirds of individuals with acute HIV infection, investigators report in an article published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The researchers believe that ...

  26 June 2009 | Michael Carter

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• 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

• FDA sees benefits and risks with first over-the-counter HIV test for home use

  The Food and Drug Administration is considering approval of the first over-the-counter HIV test that would allow consumers to quickly test themselves for the virus at home, without medical supervision.

  14 May 2012 | Washington Post

• FDA reviews first rapid, take-home test for HIV

  The Food and Drug Administration is considering approval of the first over-the-counter HIV test that would allow consumers to quickly test themselves for the virus at home, without medical supervision.

  14 May 2012 | Bloomberg BusinessWeek

• Op-ed: The Case for a Rapid Home HIV Test

  A rapid/oral HIV test for home use, currently under consideration by an FDA advisory committee, has the potential to reach a far greater number of individuals who want to know their HIV status on their own terms, writes Tom Donohue.

  06 May 2012 | The Advocate

• Three Big HIV Days in May at the FDA

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has three important advisory committees planned in May to review new strategies in prevention, treatment and diagnostic testing, according to an AIDS.gov blog post by Richard Klein, who heads the agency’s Office of Special Health Issues.

  19 April 2012 | AIDSMeds

• Sensors To Test For Malaria And HIV Printed And Assembled For Less Than 10 Cents

  Inspired by the paper-folding art of origami, chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a 3-D paper sensor that may be able to test for diseases such as malaria and HIV for less than 10 cents a pop.

  12 March 2012 | HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today

• Many Gay Men Would Support 'Home HIV Test': Study

  Many gay men who regularly have risky sex would be willing to ask partners to use a new, rapid-result HIV test, a new study shows. The tests, which use a mouth swab and detect HIV antibodies in less than 20 minutes, are currently used in testing clinics across the United States.

  10 February 2012 | U.S. News & World Report

• Chembio, OraSure vie over Over The Counter HIV tests

  Even as a Pennsylvania-based company made news last month by advancing toward approval for an over-the-counter HIV test, a Long Island company is making strides with its own version of the test.

  03 February 2012 | Long Island Business News

• Rapid HIV Test Results Better With Blood

  A rapid HIV test gives slightly less exact results when used with oral samples than with blood samples, researchers reported.

  25 January 2012 | MedPage Today HIV/AIDS

• Tanzania: Rejected HIV Test Kits Doubted Since 2007

  REPORTS have emerged that a deal to import and supply HIV Test kits manufactured by South Korean firms that were later found to be defective was questionable since 2007.

  24 January 2012 | AllAfrica

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