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Guidance sets out when and how HIV testing should be carried out. Policy and guidelines are usually written for healthcare workers. Guidance may include best practice on practical issues of testing, as well as when to offer an HIV test.

HIV testing policies & guidelines

South Africa: Mass Testing of Learners Opposed

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AllAfrica
22 September 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

HIV testing is now a routine part of health care in New York

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New York City Department of Health
4 September 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

South Africa: More People Test for HIV in Gauteng

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AllAfrica
24 August 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Home-based testing and counselling launched in Swaziland

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Swazi Observer
12 August 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

SOUTH AFRICA: Unpaid VCT counsellors threaten to walk out

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IRIN Plus News
6 August 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Mass testing campaign unjustified if people fail to receive treatment, activist argues

News
27 July 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

HIV ‘test and treat’ strategy could have individual and public health benefits in Washington DC

News
2 July 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Malaria symptoms should raise suspicion of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

News
28 June 2010
Access to healthcare

UK restrictions on access to healthcare result in migrants delaying HIV tests and treatment

News
24 June 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Increasing testing for HIV in TB patients feasible without additional resources

News
10 June 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Slow progress towards routine HIV testing in acute settings: clinician education needed

News
4 May 2010
Diagnosing infants & children

Testing children in UK: progress made, but more work needed for older children and those living abroad

News
27 April 2010
Travel

Parliamentarians, UNAIDS, call for removal of HIV travel bans

News
29 March 2010
Transmission & prevention

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

News
25 March 2010
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

'Test and treat' prevention approach may not require universal treatment to succeed

News
18 March 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Missed opportunities for HIV testing of pregnant women

News
25 February 2010
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Increased testing leads to decrease in viral load and infections in San Francisco, and in late diagnosis in Washington

News
18 February 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

New criteria proposed for late HIV diagnosis

News
28 January 2010
Prisoners

Almost 30 percent of HIV-positive New York jail inmates may not know their status

News
25 January 2010
HIV testing programmes & uptake

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

News
1 October 2009
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Test early, test often…how could the UK improve its HIV testing rates?

News
1 October 2009
Transmission & prevention

Fewer than one in five people with HIV in Kenya and Malawi know they are infected

News
14 August 2009
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Opt-out HIV testing feasible and acceptable

News
1 June 2009
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Fewer than half of all TB patients in London being offered an HIV test

News
7 April 2009