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  World’s largest study of HIV self-testing gets off the ground

  Early data from STAR, the largest study yet of HIV self-testing, suggests that there is a strong demand for self-testing in rural Zimbabwe, the 21st International AIDS...

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• Self-testing helps the partners of people with HIV to test, but not to link to care

  Asking people living with HIV in Malawi to pass on HIV self-testing kits to their sexual partners was an effective way to encourage partners to take a test, but linkage to care was poor in a randomised study reported ...

  12 March 2019 | Roger Pebody

• Public Health England warns that improved treatment and testing rates for STIs in the UK could be imperilled by cuts

  A review of one hundred years of diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK confirms that there have been sharp increases in gonorrhoea and syphilis since the historic lows of the 1990s, especially in gay and bisexual ...

  18 December 2018 | Gus Cairns

• HIV diagnoses fell in the UK in 2017 for the first time among all risk groups, all ethnicities and in all regions, annual report reveals

  The 2018 report from Public Health England is entitled Progress towards ending the HIV epidemic in the United Kingdom, and for once the note of optimism in the title is justified.The report describes an epidemic in which new ...

  29 November 2018 | Gus Cairns

• "I approached him when he was in his good moods": how pregnant women introduce HIV self-tests to their partners

  Providing HIV self-testing kits to pregnant women to encourage HIV testing in their male partners is acceptable to men and women in Uganda, but women who are apprehensive about their partners’ reactions may need more support, according to findings ...

  21 September 2018 | Keith Alcorn

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

  Gay men who were offered HIV home-testing kits took 50% more tests than men who only took HIV tests at clinics or community organisations, a randomised controlled study from Seattle in the USA has found. The men who could ...

  21 August 2018 | Gus Cairns

• Digital innovations are promoting HIV testing and prevention to MSM in Asia

  Innovative health promotion interventions engaging men who have sex with men (MSM) in south east Asia through social media, apps, online marketing, video tools and phone services were highlighted at the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018) last week. ...

  30 July 2018 | Roger Pebody

• Kenyan women can distribute HIV self-test kits to their sexual partners without a significant risk of intimate partner violence

  The distribution of HIV self-testing kits by women to their sexual partners doesn't increase women's risk of intimate partner violence, according to Kenyan research published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. Prevalence of intimate partner violence was as ...

  17 July 2018 | Michael Carter

• Who is taking an HIV test in England and where?

  The range of settings in which people test for HIV has expanded significantly in recent years in England, according to a new Public Health England report on HIV testing services. It includes new estimates of the ...

  15 November 2017 | Roger Pebody

• Can self-testing engage 'hard-to-reach' men with HIV testing?

  Adding HIV self-testing as an additional option to a door-to-door programme offering HIV testing in Zambia boosted the uptake of HIV testing among men, younger adults and those who had previously refused HIV testing, Helen Ayles of the London ...

  25 July 2017 | Roger Pebody

• High uptake of HIV self-testing by female sex workers in African countries

  A year ago there was virtually no evidence on the acceptability and feasibility of HIV self-testing in female sex workers, but a series of presentations from Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda and Kenya at the 9th International AIDS Society Conference on ...

  25 July 2017 | Roger Pebody

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• Government is accused of 'not caring' about HIV after 'disgraceful' decision to deny people in England access to free self-testing kits

  Public Health England last year offered firms the chance to sell their self-testing kits to the NHS, but later withdrew the offer completely. In a scathing attack on the move, the manufacturer of a type of testing kit branded it 'disgraceful', 'discriminatory' and 'small-minded'.

  10 June 2019 | Daily Mail

• Thailand: Self-test kits for HIV now available at pharmacies

  Thanks to the latest move by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), people no longer have to visit a medical centre to undergo an HIV test. If they are worried that they may be infected, people can just buy a self-test kit from a pharmacy and check on their own.

  23 April 2019 | The Nation

• Australia's first HIV self-testing device goes on sale today

  Australia's first approved HIV self-testing device goes on sale today, allowing those who think they've been exposed to HIV to test themselves at home.

  04 April 2019 | QNews

• How the government wasted 25 years before letting people home-test themselves for HIV

  It took FDA until 2012 to finally lift its ban on rapid home HIV tests. Tragically, countries around the world had followed FDA’s 1988 ban, believing it was based on science, and also banned home HIV tests, resulting in countless additional people being exposed to or contracting HIV.

  05 December 2018 | Washington Examiner

• The Independent launches Christmas charity appeal for essential HIV testing around the world

  Funds raised for Elton John AIDS Foundation will pay for those at risk to be able to get tested, and will make sure they have access to the treatment they need.

  03 December 2018 | The Independent

• Unitaid drives expansion in HIV self-testing to get more people to know their status

  A report launched jointly today with Population Services International (PSI), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and WHO unveils results of our HIV Self-Testing Africa (STAR) Initiative, which is generating the evidence for countries worldwide to scale up HIV self-testing and encouraging millions more people to find out their HIV status.

  01 December 2018 | Unitaid

• ILO and WHO promote workplace HIV self-testing

  A new policy brief to encourage HIV self-testing at the workplace is being launched by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

  01 December 2018 | World Health Organization

• INSTI HIV Self Test Earns WHO Prequalification Status for Home Testing

  bioLytical Laboratories, a world leader in rapid infectious disease tests, is pleased to announce that its INSTI® HIV Self Test has been Prequalified by the World Health Organization (WHO). INSTI, the world’s fastest home test providing results in 1-minute, becomes the first and only blood-based HIV self-test to be WHO Prequalified.

  29 November 2018 | bioLytical Laboratories press release

• Australia's first HIV home-testing kit gets tick of approval

  Australia's first HIV home-testing kit has been approved by the regulator, in a move that has been welcomed by health advocates as a key weapon in the fight to eradicate the virus.

  29 November 2018 | Sydney Morning Herald

• Regulator seizes almost 10000 unsafe STI + HIV test kits

  The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is warning people who buy STI test kits and HIV test kits online to make sure that they are purchasing from safe and legitimate sources

  17 October 2018 | GOV.UK

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