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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks 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.

Cancer

Routine screening cuts rate of anal cancer among people living with HIV

News
1 November 2019
HIV testing programmes & uptake

HIV testing increases 15-fold among teens after improvement initiative

Editor's pick
Healio
28 October 2019
HIV testing programmes & uptake

'They paid a guy to kill me': health workers fight homophobia in Uganda

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The Guardian
22 October 2019
Self-testing & home testing

Two thirds prefer self-testing over self-sampling

News
17 October 2019
Types of HIV tests

Study finds risk for false-negative rapid test results in HIV controllers

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Healio
9 October 2019
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Severe anti-LGBT legislations associated with lower testing and awareness of HIV in African countries

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EurekAlert
8 October 2019
HIV prevention policy

New HIV infections fall by more than half in Ugandan fishing communities

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Avert
26 September 2019
Viral load

Point-of-care viral load testing results in more switches from failing treatment

News
26 September 2019
Sexually transmitted infections tests & treatment

Reimagining STI Clinics for a New Generation

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Medscape (requires free registration)
18 September 2019
HIV testing programmes & uptake

How Many People Actually Get Screened for HIV?

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American Journal of Managed Care
17 September 2019
Access to healthcare

U=U is a blessing: but only for patients with access to HIV treatment

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The BMJ
17 September 2019
HIV testing policies & guidelines

87 Years Old, One Sex Partner, Diagnosed With AIDS

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Medscape (requires free registration)
12 September 2019
Self-testing & home testing

Health authorities aim to roll out HIV self-test plan by this year

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South China Morning Post
27 August 2019
Viral load

Kary Mullis, quirky Nobel laureate whose DNA discovery changed the science world, dies

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Los Angeles Times
14 August 2019
Access to healthcare

Leakages in ART treatment cascades in West Africa and Zambia

News
8 August 2019
Self-testing & home testing

'Mystery shoppers' in Kenyan pharmacies highlight issues with distribution of HIV self-tests

News
29 July 2019
Types of HIV tests

Home tests aren’t an accurate way for people on HIV treatment to check they still have HIV

News
23 July 2019
African migrants

Deportation fears, uncertainty over health insurance and stigma are barriers to accessing HIV services for undocumented African migrants in the US

News
19 July 2019
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Less than 40% of adults in the USA have ever tested for HIV

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Avert
8 July 2019
Types of HIV tests

Can Self-Swabs Make HIV Exposure and Risk Reporting More Accurate?

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The Body Pro
1 July 2019
Resistance

Genotype Testing at HIV Diagnosis Provides No Benefit

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Infectious Disease Advisor
25 June 2019
Confidentiality, consent & medical ethics

Ex-nurse accused of raping woman loses appeal over HIV test

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Associated Press
17 June 2019
Taking an HIV test

Here’s why you test positive for HIV if you’re undetectable

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San Francisco AIDS Foundation
11 June 2019
HIV testing programmes & uptake

More support needed to increase HIV testing in GP practices

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University of Bristol
10 June 2019