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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.

Types of HIV tests

First HIV home test approved for sale in UK

News
24 April 2015
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Medicare Announces Coverage for Annual HIV Test

Editor's pick
AIDS.gov
15 April 2015
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Policy of Mandatory HIV Testing of Sex Workers Repealed in Greece

Editor's pick
Global Network of Sex Work Projects
15 April 2015
Human rights

Czech human rights advocates up in arms over proposal to make HIV testing compulsory for high-risk groups

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Radio Prague
9 April 2015
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Breastfeeding mothers often undiagnosed in sub-Saharan Africa

News
25 February 2015
Epidemiology

No improvements in CD4 count at diagnosis in African patients in last decade

News
4 February 2015
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Malawi to Conduct Door-to-Door HIV Testing

Editor's pick
Voice of America
16 December 2014
Epidemiology & behaviour

New HIV diagnoses in MSM in high-income countries

Editor's pick
The Lancet Infectious Diseases (requires free registration)
15 December 2014
Types of HIV tests

FDA OKs Wider Use of Rapid Test That Better Detects Early HIV

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AIDSMeds
12 December 2014
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

HIV most often passed on by younger gay men who have undiagnosed HIV, are not on treatment, and have an ongoing partnership

News
11 December 2014
Transmission & prevention

Can the Adult Film Industry Lead the Way on HIV?

Editor's pick
Huffington Post
8 December 2014
HIV testing programmes & uptake

South Africa: Should HIV Testing Become a Standard Medical Procedure?

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AllAfrica.com
3 December 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Leaving it late: why are people still dying from HIV in the UK?

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Public Health England blog
2 December 2014
Global health initiatives

HIV epidemic will spring back without near-universal diagnosis and treatment, says UNAIDS

News
1 December 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Sexual health charity launches webtool to increase HIV testing in primary care

Editor's pick
MEDFASH press release
25 November 2014
HIV prevention policy

Rumours of the demise of HIV have been greatly exaggerated

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The Conversation
25 November 2014
Retention & linkage to care

Study Finds Retention Problems Among South African Patients Receiving HIV Treatment

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Boston University press release
7 November 2014
Migrants, refugees & displaced people

Farage's "people of quality"

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Beyond Positive
16 October 2014
Migrants, refugees & displaced people

Why barriers at the UK border won’t work for HIV

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The Guardian
10 October 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Northern Ireland Health Minister announces consultation on HIV self-testing kits

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Pink News
2 October 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

HIV testing and black Africans in the UK

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GP online
29 September 2014
HIV testing programmes & uptake

HIV testing rates are improving in African people in England

News
8 September 2014
Economic & social inequality

Social inequalities associated with late HIV diagnosis and delayed HIV treatment – European study

News
5 September 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