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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.

Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

HIV superinfection associated with accelerated viral load increase but has no impact on clinical disease progression

News
19 August 2014
HIV prevention policy

HIV prevention for black African people in the UK is under-resourced and needs to be scaled up

News
12 August 2014
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Excellent outcomes among people starting HIV therapy at high CD4 counts in Uganda

News
8 August 2014
CD4 count

South African women living with HIV subtype C experience rapid CD4 cell loss

News
5 August 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Acute HIV Often Has Symptoms, But Testing Is Best Diagnostic

Editor's pick
AIDSMeds
5 August 2014
Epidemiology & behaviour

US: Annual HIV diagnosis rates have 'decreased by more than 30%'

Editor's pick
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
4 August 2014
Self-testing & home testing

Self-testing has the potential to boost HIV diagnosis rates among MSM in China

News
31 July 2014
Self-testing & home testing

What needs to be done to make HIV self-testing a reality?

News
28 July 2014
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Half of young gay men in Bangkok who aren't consistent condom users acquire HIV within five years of starting sex

News
28 July 2014
Global health initiatives

Of guidelines, targets and resources: the documents that defined the 2014 International AIDS Conference

News
26 July 2014
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

HIV is increasing in gay men in London because of lack of testing, comparative study finds

News
24 July 2014
Testing & health monitoring

Anal lesions often resolve without treatment in HIV-positive gay men

News
23 July 2014
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Home-testing acceptable in 'treat everyone' trial: treatment takes longer to accept

News
23 July 2014
Behaviour change interventions

Treatment as prevention may not work in Africa without couples counselling

News
23 July 2014
Access to healthcare

UNAIDS and partners launch initiative to improve HIV diagnostics

Editor's pick
UNAIDS
23 July 2014
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Bill Clinton, former US president, tells conference AIDS-free generation is in reach

Editor's pick
ABC News
23 July 2014
Access to healthcare

High prices hinder access to newer HIV drugs and optimal tests that ensure treatment is working

Editor's pick
MSF
22 July 2014
Access to healthcare

What is needed to 'step up the pace' on HIV prevention and treatment?

News
21 July 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

HIV Prevention in Clinical Care Settings - 2014 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA Panel

Editor's pick
Journal of the American Medical Association
19 July 2014
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Australia: Nearly a third of HIV patients are diagnosed too late, data shows

Editor's pick
The Guardian
17 July 2014
Epidemiology

UNAIDS report shows that 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV today do not know that they have the virus

Editor's pick
UNAIDS
16 July 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Physicians struggle to clinically diagnose early HIV infection

Editor's pick
Eurekalert Inf Dis
16 July 2014
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Africa: Could HIV Self-Testing Be a Game Changer in Africa?

Editor's pick
AllAfrica
16 July 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Australia: HIV home-tests ban lifted but patience required for an accurate result

Editor's pick
The Guardian
9 July 2014