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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.

HIV testing policies & guidelines

HIV tests for GPs' new patients could save lives and money, says study

Editor's pick
The Guardian
31 July 2017
Self-testing & home testing

IAS 2017: UNITAID, partners boost HIV self-test access in six African countries

Editor's pick
Science Speaks
27 July 2017
Global health targets

90-90-90 progress in southern Africa: HIV testing gap needs to be closed in young people and men

News
25 July 2017
Self-testing & home testing

Can self-testing engage 'hard-to-reach' men with HIV testing?

News
25 July 2017
Self-testing & home testing

High uptake of HIV self-testing by female sex workers in African countries

News
25 July 2017
Self-testing & home testing

Programme to provide free self-tests helps gay men to test for HIV more often

News
24 July 2017
New & experimental hepatitis C treatment

WHO prequalifies first generic hepatitis C medicine and first HIV self-test

Editor's pick
World Health Organization
22 July 2017
Types of HIV tests

OraSure Technologies Receives World Health Organization Prequalification of OraQuick® HIV Self-Test

Editor's pick
Orasure press release
22 July 2017
Testing & health monitoring

Gates is Still Gunning for HIV. Here's the Latest

Editor's pick
Inside Philanthropy
19 July 2017
Retention & linkage to care

Gay men using HIV self-tests promptly seek confirmatory testing and linkage to care, New York data suggests

News
17 July 2017
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Viral Rebound Unlikely for Many on ART

Editor's pick
Infectious Disease Special Edition
14 July 2017
Improving HIV care

Do People With HIV Need Annual Physical Examinations?

Editor's pick
The Body PRO
12 July 2017
HIV testing policies & guidelines

High uptake of home-based HIV testing in Zambia, but repeat visits needed to get close to universal coverage

News
11 July 2017
Self-testing & home testing

New HIV self-testing kit study aims to increase diagnosis rates

Editor's pick
Medical Xpress
5 July 2017
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Viral load as low as 400 copies/ml six months after starting ART is associated with a significant ten-year mortality risk

News
5 July 2017
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Partners of people living with HIV more likely to test when encouraged by health worker

Editor's pick
AVERT
4 July 2017
HIV testing programmes & uptake

OraSure Technologies enters agreement with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to reduce price of rapid, point-of-care HIV self-test in 50 developing countries

Editor's pick
Orasure press release
27 June 2017
Epidemiology

Fall in new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) at selected London sexual health clinics since early 2015: testing or treatment or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)?

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Eurosurveillance
26 June 2017
Epidemiology

Fall in HIV among gay men could spell end for Britain's epidemic, say experts

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The Guardian
22 June 2017
Taking an HIV test

I Found Out I Was HIV Positive at a Gay Bar

Editor's pick
Vice
21 June 2017
Taking an HIV test

DIY HIV Prevention (#DIYHIVPx)

Editor's pick
Incidence 0
19 June 2017
Sex workers

A sex worker's view on South Africa's latest plans to beat HIV

Editor's pick
Times (South Africa)
14 June 2017
Resistance

HIV drug resistance testing not a priority for resource-limited settings, trial finds

News
14 June 2017
Global health targets

Study: 1 in 3 Patients Starts HIV Treatment Late in 10 Countries

Editor's pick
Voice of America
9 June 2017