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Having an HIV test usually means giving a small sample of blood for testing. In the UK and many other countries, HIV testing is free of charge and the result is confidential.

HIV testing policies & guidelines

Major knowledge gaps on social harms after HIV partner notification

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16 February 2024
Taking an HIV test

Analysis of post-test counselling in South Africa reveals consistent failures to align with universal test and treat guidelines

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3 June 2021
Self-testing & home testing

What happens when people ask sexual partners to use a home test?

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28 February 2020
Self-testing & home testing

Two thirds prefer self-testing over self-sampling

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17 October 2019
Self-testing & home testing

Giving gay men self-test kits increases testing by 50% – but STI tests decrease

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21 August 2018
Taking an HIV test

High uptake of HIV self-testing by men who have sex with men and transgender women in Burma

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12 March 2018
PrEP programmes & uptake

One in seven people offered PrEP in African study start it immediately

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28 August 2017
Experiences of stigma

Fear of stigma is prompting young South Africans to seek early HIV treatment

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4 May 2017
Behaviour change interventions

Behaviour change interventions in HIV prevention: is there still a place for them?

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12 April 2017
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Simple risk score can identify gay men who may have acute HIV infection

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7 March 2017
Self-testing & home testing

HIV self-testing has several advantages, but some barriers to HIV testing likely to remain

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7 June 2016
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Spanish pharmacy HIV testing programme detects many new infections

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16 September 2015
Self-testing & home testing

HIV self-testing may help the 'hard to reach' learn their status, but uncertainties remain

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26 July 2015
HIV testing programmes & uptake

HIV testing interventions should challenge fears of a positive result

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3 February 2014
Transmission & prevention

NAM prevention survey results: testing underestimated, support for treatment as prevention, reservations about PrEP

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9 December 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

Condomless sex increasing in US gay men – especially in HIV-negative and untested men

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29 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
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Home-based counselling and testing achieves very high testing rates in Kenya

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4 October 2013
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

A fifth of gay men in a relationship with an HIV-negative man have not tested for HIV while in their current relationship

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26 August 2013
Self-testing & home testing

Legal barrier to self-testing for HIV in UK to be lifted

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15 August 2013
HIV testing programmes & uptake

What HIV self-testing may mean for couples

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22 July 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

Consistent decline in partner numbers in US gay men in last decade, but no change in condom use

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25 April 2013
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Quality of health services is key in encouraging or discouraging people from HIV testing in Africa

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26 March 2013
How HIV works

Tales of the late diagnosed

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14 February 2013