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Routine HIV Testing to Start at Royal London Hospital's A&E

Beginning March 25, England's Royal London Hospital’s Accident & Emergency Department will pilot a month-long trial offering HIV testing to emergency patients needing other blood testing.

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CDC National Prevention Information Network
Retention and linkage to care
Self-testing and home treatment initiation triples uptake of HIV treatment in Malawi

Offering people the opportunity to self-test at home and then start antiretroviral therapy after counselling at home, together with home delivery of antiretroviral drugs, increased the number

Published
21 March 2013
By
Keith Alcorn
Women
NEW YORK: 30% of N.Y. HIV Women Get 'Late' Diagnosis

New York state health officials say that approximately 30 percent of the state’s women who are newly diagnosed with HIV receive an AIDS diagnosis at the same time or soon after their initial diagnosis.

Published
13 March 2013
From
CDC National Prevention Information Network
Promoting HIV testing
US: HIV Awareness Rising Among Urban Gays

More gay and bisexual men infected with HIV are aware they have the virus, at least in 20 major urban areas, a researcher said here.

Published
07 March 2013
From
MedPage Today HIV/AIDS
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
I'm HIV-Negative

Majorities tend to be silent, just like the overwhelming majority of gay men -- that is, the (approximately) four out of five gay men who are HIV-negative -- who rarely initiate conversations about HIV.

Published
27 February 2013
From
Huffington Post (blog)
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
The HIV treatment cascade – patching the leaks to improve HIV prevention

The concept of an HIV treatment cascade has emerged as a way to identify gaps in the continuum, which are preventing people from realizing the treatment and prevention benefits of antiretroviral therapy.

Published
20 February 2013
From
CATIE Prevention in Focus
Promoting HIV testing
Dr Alan McOwan: Testing times

You are safer having unsafe sex with someone who is HIV positive and being treated than with someone who doesn’t know their status, says Dr Alan McOwan

Published
20 February 2013
From
Gay Star News
Confidentiality, consent and medical ethics
Leno bill modernizes California's HIV confidentiality laws

SB 249 protects the privacy of HIV and AIDS patients while allowing the disclosure of important medical information under limited circumstances in order to better coordinate and transition care. The bill also updates the state’s confidentiality requirements for HIV tests to ensure that all existing and new testing types are protected.

Published
18 February 2013
From
San Diego LGBT Weekly
HIV testing
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.

Published
14 February 2013
From
HIV treatment update
Promoting HIV testing
Media campaign on acute HIV infection symptoms has limited impact

A advertising campaign and website that aimed to raise awareness among gay men in Seattle, Washington, of the symptoms of acute HIV infection was recalled by a

Published
14 February 2013
By
Roger Pebody
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