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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.

TB diagnosis

More intensive screening for TB needed for HIV-positive patients in South Africa

News
9 September 2010
Cancer

Recurrent pneumonia increases lung cancer risk for patients with AIDS

News
6 September 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

HIV testing is now a routine part of health care in New York

Editor's pick
New York City Department of Health
4 September 2010
Hepatitis B

Abbott receives FDA approval for first automated molecular test for assessing hepatitis B treatment

Editor's pick
Abbott
1 September 2010
Government, leadership & policy

People with HIV with higher CD4 counts should not miss seasonal flu jabs

News
1 September 2010
Low CD4 count

Low CD4 cell count associated with poor response to swine flu vaccine for those with HIV

News
31 August 2010
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Hospitals face legal dilemma if they test incapacitated patients after needle accidents

Editor's pick
Science Daily
31 August 2010
Testing & health monitoring

Haiti study shows lab tests sometimes cost-effective for HIV, even in poorest countries

News
30 August 2010
Self-testing & home testing

HIV testing rate increased if screening offered at home

News
25 August 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

South Africa: More People Test for HIV in Gauteng

Editor's pick
AllAfrica
24 August 2010
New & experimental HIV treatments

Maraviroc potentially of benefit for many patients with late HIV diagnosis

News
16 August 2010
Ageing & HIV

New diagnoses among over 50s double in England, Wales and Northern Ireland

News
16 August 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Home-based testing and counselling launched in Swaziland

Editor's pick
Swazi Observer
12 August 2010
Hepatitis & HIV

Chronic hepatitis C infection blunts CD4 gains after start of HIV treatment

News
10 August 2010
Mental & emotional health problems

Symptoms can predict increases in viral load for patients taking HIV treatment

News
9 August 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

SOUTH AFRICA: Unpaid VCT counsellors threaten to walk out

Editor's pick
IRIN Plus News
6 August 2010
Self-testing & home testing

New Early HIV Testing Clinic Home Service Launched Across the UK by Freedomhealth, London, UK

Editor's pick
PR Web UK
6 August 2010
Government, leadership & policy

Lymphocyte count and haemoglobin can predict prognosis of patients starting ART

News
3 August 2010
Testing & health monitoring

Increased mortality risk for treatment-naive patients with CD4 count below 500

News
3 August 2010
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Outcomes still improving for HIV patients in the UK

News
2 August 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Mass testing campaign unjustified if people fail to receive treatment, activist argues

News
27 July 2010
Neurological & cognitive problems

Neurocognitive impairment linked to prior low CD4 cell count, even if on current suppressive HIV treatment

News
26 July 2010
Epidemiology & behaviour

UK: one in six gay men testing HIV-positive were infected recently

News
23 July 2010
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Indirect evidence that treatment is bringing down HIV transmission in Denmark

News
21 July 2010