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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks, About HIV 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.

Epidemiology & behaviour

There may be fewer people living with undiagnosed HIV in the UK than previously thought

News
1 December 2016
Global health targets

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

News
30 November 2016
Self-testing & home testing

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

News
29 November 2016
HIV testing programmes & uptake

In 1983, I Used A False Name To Get Tested For HIV - Today, It’s Something To Be Proud Of

Editor's pick
Huffington Post
21 November 2016
People & personal stories

One man’s story of what it is like to find out he has HIV and how it’s not a death sentence

Editor's pick
Metro
21 November 2016
Self-testing & home testing

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

News
15 November 2016
Types of HIV tests

Reuters–along with many other news sites–parrots erroneous news release on HIV testing via USB stick

Editor's pick
Health News Review
15 November 2016
Self-testing & home testing

bioLytical Launches World's Fastest HIV Self Test in UK

Editor's pick
bioLytical press release
15 November 2016
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

HIV test performed on USB stick

Editor's pick
Imperial College
11 November 2016
Viral load

If at First an HIV Viral Load Blips, Test, Test (the Same Sample) Again

Editor's pick
The Body Pro
9 November 2016
Global health targets

30000 Jamaicans must receive HIV/AIDS treatment to meet WHO guidelines

Editor's pick
Jamaica Observer
1 November 2016
Cancer

Only a small proportion of gay men with HIV receive anal cancer screening

News
31 October 2016
Behaviour change interventions

Apps and Social Media Can Reach High-Risk HIV Populations

Editor's pick
Medscape (requires free registration)
31 October 2016
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Africa has an essential medicines list. Now it needs one for diagnostics

Editor's pick
The Conversation
27 October 2016
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Hospitals and GP practices fail to check for HIV

Editor's pick
BBC
12 October 2016
Sexually transmitted infections prevention

Cochrane says: Chlamydia screening may have very limited impact, but more research is needed

Editor's pick
BMJ Group blogs
4 October 2016
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Kenyan churches demand HIV test for couples wanting to marry

Editor's pick
The Catholic Register
3 October 2016
PrEP

Governor of California signs law requiring education about HIV-preventing PrEP drugs

Editor's pick
Pink News
30 September 2016
HIV prevention policy

The CDC’s Gay Dance Video about HIV is Flat Out Fabulous

Editor's pick
My Fabulous Disease
27 September 2016
Diagnosing infants & children

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

News
22 September 2016
Viral load

Spanish study gives reassurance: small HIV blips do not predict treatment failure

News
21 September 2016
Types of HIV tests

Dodgy kits give dodgy results

Editor's pick
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agenc
19 September 2016
TB diagnosis

Ugandan experience shows TB detection can be successfully incorporated into community HIV testing campaigns

News
16 September 2016
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Emergency department’s routine HIV testing has helped identify dozens living undiagnosed

Editor's pick
Pink News
15 September 2016