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New UK HIV testing strategy ‘urgently needed’

The UK requires a new approach to HIV testing, according to two articles in the June 29th issue of the British Medical Journal. However, although

Published
12 July 2007
By
Edwin J. Bernard
HIV testing policies and guidelines
Main article: Making the world safe for more routine HIV testing

Review of issues surrounding recommednations for more routine HIV antibody testing in resource-limited settings, including human rights arguments and proposals for mandatory testing, as well

Published
22 March 2007
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Transmission and prevention
Public health and not civil liberties should now guide HIV testing policy, says JAMA commentary

The interests of communities most affected by HIV will be best served by shifting from a civil liberties approach to HIV testing to a public

Published
25 October 2006
By
Michael Carter
HIV testing policies and guidelines
BHIVA: Rapid, community-based HIV antibody testing 'highly acceptable' (corrected)

The first analysis of the impact of a pilot scheme of community-based rapid HIV antibody testing services in England has found them to be highly

Published
24 October 2006
By
Edwin J. Bernard
HIV testing policies and guidelines
Routine or opt-out counselling and testing: findings from the 2006 PEPFAR meeting

Review of the issues involved in expanding HIV counselling and testing in resource-limited settings.

Published
27 July 2006
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
HIV treatment
Routine HIV testing widely supported in Botswana

Botswana’s policy of routinely offering an HIV test to all who seek medical care is widely supported by people in that country, and the majority

Published
20 July 2006
By
Keith Alcorn
HIV testing programmes
Rapid tests boost HIV diagnosis rate in US

Over four and half thousand Americans were diagnosed as HIV-positive between 2003 and 2005 as a result of a US Centers for Disease Control programme

Published
27 June 2006
By
Keith Alcorn
HIV testing policies and guidelines
'Opt out' HIV testing for all at UK sexual health clinics

All genitourinary medicine clinics in the United Kingdom have received a firm recommendation to introduce 'opt-out' testing for HIV for all patients, regardless of risk

Published
22 June 2006
By
Keith Alcorn
HIV testing policies and guidelines
South Africans debating HIV testing: voluntary or opt-out?

South African Supreme Court of Appeals Judge and HIV positive activist Edwin Cameron has added his voice to an international debate that has been mounting

Published
24 May 2006
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HIV testing policies and guidelines
Clinton calls for rethink on universal HIV testing

Universal HIV testing in developing countries with high levels of infection could prove valuable in tackling the spread of the pandemic, former President of United

Published
30 March 2006
By
Keith Alcorn
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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