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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 prevention policy

Forgotten Negatives: The Limits of Treatment as Prevention

Editor's pick
Treatment Action Group
2 April 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

GPs are a 'potential barrier' to widespread HIV testing, experts say

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Practice Business
1 April 2014
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Standard HIV treatment achieves high concentrations in female genital tract and suppresses shedding of virus

News
1 April 2014
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

HIV viral load in semen can differ in two samples provided within one hour

News
1 April 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

New report: key questions and good practice on instant result self-testing for HIV

Editor's pick
HIV Scotland
31 March 2014
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Point-of-care HIV tests elude poor countries

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Sci Dev Net
31 March 2014
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Renato Barucco: Beyond "Poz" and "Neg": Five HIV Statuses, Plus a New One

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Huffington Post
28 March 2014
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

South African treatment guidelines need to consider viral load, not CD4 count, to achieve greater impact of treatment as prevention: study

News
27 March 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Ed Miliband: Coalition must take responsibility for lack of HIV testing by GPs

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Pink News
20 March 2014
Cancer

Monitoring may be an option for people living with HIV diagnosed with high-grade pre-cancerous anal lesions

News
18 March 2014
Taking an HIV test

Review: Dean Street Express

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My Gay London
14 March 2014
Types of HIV tests

MedMira Receives Approval To Market Reveal® Rapid HIV Test With New Features in Europe

Editor's pick
MedMira press release
13 March 2014
HIV prevention policy

Massive scale-up of HIV testing, plus HIV treatment on diagnosis, needed to curtail UK gay epidemic

News
11 March 2014
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Only having sex with same-status partners is an HIV prevention strategy for 40% of gay men

News
11 March 2014
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Freeing babies from being born with HIV

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Public Health England
11 March 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Is the UK prepared for HIV home testing kits?

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Herald Scotland
10 March 2014
Self-testing & home testing

Self-testing encourages very high uptake of HIV testing in Malawi study

News
7 March 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

US: More MSM Get Tested for HIV, and More of Them Take Meds

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AIDSMeds
5 March 2014
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings

Is Viral Load Testing for HIV a Realistic Strategy in Developing Countries?

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PLOS Blogs
28 February 2014
TB diagnosis

TB-HIV news from the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health.

News
28 February 2014
Ageing & HIV

Older age associated with bigger increases in viral load and falls in CD4 count in patients not taking HIV treatment

News
27 February 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Guidelines for HIV testing in non-specialist settings not being followed in the UK

News
24 February 2014
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Extra 250,000 HIV tests per year 'would slash rates of infection'

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Evening Standard
20 February 2014
Diagnosing infants & children

Roche announces launch of the Dual Target HIV-1 Qualitative Test in markets accepting the CE mark

Editor's pick
PR Newswire (press release)
18 February 2014