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Ending the HIV epidemic faces daunting barriers, former WHO HIV chief warns

World Health Organization urges scale-up of HIV self-testing

Self-sampling for HIV testing popular with gay men who have not recently tested, but less uptake by African people

Early infant HIV testing at birth and at 6 weeks of age will save lives, extend life expectancy and is cost-effective for South Africa, study finds

World’s largest study of HIV self-testing gets off the ground

Community test distributor, Harrison Gwaze, explaining the benefits of taking an HIV self-test in Zimbabwe. Photo © Eric Gauss / UNITAID

Market constraints and uncertainties may limit the scale-up of HIV self-testing

Using a self-test kit in Zimbabwe. Photo © Eric Gauss / UNITAID

HIV self-testing has several advantages, but some barriers to HIV testing likely to remain

Successful diagnosis of acute/early HIV infections may have contributed to fall in HIV incidence in San Diego

First data on uptake of HIV self-testing in the UK