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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

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

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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

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Vice
21 June 2017
Taking an HIV test

DIY HIV Prevention (#DIYHIVPx)

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Incidence 0
19 June 2017
Sex workers

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

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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
Retention & linkage to care

Point-of-care CD4 counts improve linkage to HIV care in Kenya

News
6 June 2017
Taking an HIV test

Thailand: Woman wrongly diagnosed with HIV 15 years ago seeks to sue

Editor's pick
The Star Online
5 June 2017
Viral load

Viral load

About HIV
May 2017
HIV treatment

The Truth About HIV

Editor's pick
BBC iPlayer (UK only, available until 24 June)
26 May 2017
Self-testing & home testing

Terrence Higgins Trust gives away thousands of HIV home testing kits

Editor's pick
PinkNews
18 May 2017
HIV testing programmes & uptake

The 'Charlie Sheen Effect': Surge Seen in HIV Test Sales

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Live Science
18 May 2017
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Life expectancy now near-normal in people with CD4 counts over 350 a year after starting therapy

News
15 May 2017
Types of HIV tests

South Africa: First HIV test approved for home use to hit shelves

Editor's pick
The Citizen
12 May 2017
Starting treatment

Protease inhibitor drug suppresses HIV in semen more slowly than drugs from other classes

News
12 May 2017
HIV prevention policy

Kenya launches self-test kits and PrEP

Editor's pick
UNAIDS
5 May 2017