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Educational campaigns and improved services can encourage more people to be tested for HIV. Regular and frequent testing is recommended in many populations and could help reduce late diagnosis of HIV.

Men who have sex with men (MSM)

HIV is increasing in gay men in London because of lack of testing, comparative study finds

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24 July 2014
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Home-testing acceptable in 'treat everyone' trial: treatment takes longer to accept

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23 July 2014
Behaviour change interventions

Treatment as prevention may not work in Africa without couples counselling

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23 July 2014
Access to healthcare

What is needed to 'step up the pace' on HIV prevention and treatment?

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21 July 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Annual HIV tests for high-risk groups and one-off screening for all others could have a big impact on UK's HIV epidemic

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9 May 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Expanded HIV testing may find more acute infections as well as more late presenters

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7 April 2014
Self-testing & home testing

Home sampling for HIV testing – high demand, 1 in 60 are HIV positive

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4 April 2014
HIV prevention policy

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

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11 March 2014
Self-testing & home testing

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

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7 March 2014
HIV testing policies & guidelines

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

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24 February 2014
HIV testing programmes & uptake

HIV testing interventions should challenge fears of a positive result

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3 February 2014
Types of HIV tests

Modelling study – self testing could lead to more HIV infections

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20 January 2014
HIV testing programmes & uptake

People newly diagnosed with HIV/STIs often have individuals with undiagnosed HIV in their social network

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30 December 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

Major UK study shows rise in HIV testing, but only a quarter of gay men tested in previous year

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30 November 2013
UK health services

All change...

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25 November 2013
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Partner notification highly effective at finding new HIV cases, but a third who could be tested are missed

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23 November 2013
Health services & systems

Multi-disease prevention campaigns (part 2): case studies from Kenya and Uganda

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21 November 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

Largest ever number of HIV diagnoses in UK gay men – due to increased testing and new infections

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21 November 2013
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Audit shows many high HIV prevalence areas in England are failing to expand HIV testing

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12 November 2013
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Pre-test counselling does not reduce sexual risk taking – findings support streamlined HIV testing procedures

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24 October 2013
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Late testing rates declining in Europe, but largely in gay men

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24 October 2013
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Specialised testing and social marketing campaigns increase the detection of acute HIV infection among gay men

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10 October 2013
Health services & systems

Multi-disease prevention campaigns (part 1): integrating HIV into wider public health campaigns

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8 October 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

Revisiting the safety spectrum: how gay men fall into different 'risk classes' for HIV

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7 October 2013