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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: Testing & health monitoring

Information about both the tests that are used to diagnose HIV and those used to monitor the health of people living with HIV, including viral load and CD4 counts.

Taking an HIV test

Researchers explore the acceptability of delivering HIV-positive results by phone

Editor's pick
Medical Xpress
17 September 2020
HIV testing programmes & uptake

South Africa: Covid-19 sets HIV treatment and testing back

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Mail & Guardian
14 September 2020
Self-testing & home testing

Kenya: Providing sex workers with HIV self-tests leads to high levels of partner testing

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Avert
14 September 2020
PrEP science

Two different cases of PrEP failure despite high adherence underline that such events are rare, but should not be ignored

News
4 September 2020
The search for a cure

Elite controllers may self-vaccinate against active HIV infection, gene study suggests

News
28 August 2020
Viral load

South Africa: Half of people living with HIV who need a repeat viral load test received it late

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Avert
26 August 2020
Transgender people

Large numbers of transgender MSM have never tested for HIV or STIs

News
20 August 2020
HIV testing programmes & uptake

67 homeless people in Merseyside now on HIV and Hepatitis C treatment plans

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ITV
19 August 2020
Migrants, refugees & displaced people

As a Refugee to Canada, I Had to Take an HIV Test That Made Me Contemplate My Future

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TheBody
19 August 2020
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Quarterly HIV Testing for High-Risk Young Gay and Bi Men Is Cost Effective

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POZ
19 August 2020
Transgender people

In the US 58% of trans men and 35% of trans women are familiar with PrEP

News
5 August 2020
Hepatitis C symptoms & diagnosis

Data reveal 'missed opportunities' to detect HCV among newly diagnosed patients with HIV

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Healio
21 July 2020
Low & theoretical transmission risks

HIV testing people who spit at police or health workers won't actually protect them

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The Conversation
15 July 2020
Diagnosing infants & children

Finding the missing children: paediatric index testing expands in Africa

News
10 July 2020
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Survey: Two-Thirds of US Adults Have Not Received HIV Testing

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Contagion Live
8 July 2020
Self-testing & home testing

How can men be encouraged to take an HIV test?

News
8 July 2020
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Time to HIV Diagnosis Falling in US, But Half With HIV Undiagnosed After 3 Years

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NATAP
6 July 2020
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Huge improvements in HIV testing for gay and bisexual men in New South Wales, but some groups left behind

News
6 July 2020
HIV testing programmes & uptake

HIV testing in South Africa rises by 45% in 12 years

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Avert
2 July 2020
Economic & social inequality

Undetectable to viral rebound: When and why?

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San Francisco AIDS Foundation
24 June 2020
Economic & social inequality

Large HIV testing gap between rich and poor living in African countries

News
12 June 2020
Viral load

When People Stop Newer HIV Meds, Time to Viral Rebound Not Better Than With Older Antiretroviral Therapy, NIH Study Finds

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TheBodyPro
10 June 2020
Low CD4 count

Study shows a 70% decline in baseline CD4 testing in Uganda over six years

News
10 June 2020
UK health services

Walk-in STI services may be a thing of the past as UK clinics continue to adjust to COVID-19

News
8 June 2020