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HIV testing policies and guidelines
HIV Home-Test Kits Could Be Legalised

Officials are planning to change laws so people who are concerned that they might have HIV will soon be able to find out in the comfort of their own homes.

Published
12 August 2013
From
Huffington Post
HIV testing programmes
What HIV self-testing may mean for couples

A study in Malawi is offering glimpses into why couples opt for HIV self-testing – including issues of trust and honesty – and what it may

Published
22 July 2013
By
Laura Lopez Gonzalez
Self-testing and home testing
Review shows HIV self-testing to be acceptable, accurate and feasible, but finds little data on linkage to care for those testing HIV positive

Self-testing for HIV is highly acceptable to people in a variety of settings, investigators report in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. The authors reviewed the results of 21

Published
04 April 2013
By
Michael Carter
Retention and linkage to care
Self-testing and home treatment initiation triples uptake of HIV treatment in Malawi

Offering people the opportunity to self-test at home and then start antiretroviral therapy after counselling at home, together with home delivery of antiretroviral drugs, increased the number

Published
21 March 2013
By
Keith Alcorn
HIV testing policies and guidelines
Is the UK Ready for HIV Home Testing Kits?

Despite the logistical and regulatory minefield, I would argue that we need the option of home testing. What we are currently doing simply isn't working!

Published
07 February 2013
From
Huffington Post
Self-testing and home testing
Magic Johnson to be New Face of HIV Home-Testing Kit

Earvin “Magic” Johnson has endorsed the new over-the- counter HIV home-testing kit, OraQuick, aimed at people who might not otherwise get tested.

Published
19 October 2012
From
Afro American
Self-testing and home testing
OraSure HIV Home Test Won't Stem Disease, Editorial Says

OraSure Technologies Inc. (OSUR)'s OraQuick, which allows people to screen for HIV at home, won't help slow transmissions of the virus, a public health specialist and an infectious disease doctor said in an editorial.

Published
09 October 2012
From
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Taking an HIV test
An HIV home testing kit won't give you emotional support

Having worked in the sector for years, I know that when people discovering they are HIV positive need professional counselling.

Published
06 July 2012
From
The Guardian
Self-testing and home testing
US regulators set to approve HIV home-testing kit

HIV home testing is soon likely to become legal in the United States, following a unanimous vote in support of the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test by a

Published
16 May 2012
By
Roger Pebody
Self-testing and home testing
FDA reviews first rapid, take-home test for HIV

The Food and Drug Administration is considering approval of the first over-the-counter HIV test that would allow consumers to quickly test themselves for the virus at home, without medical supervision.

Published
14 May 2012
From
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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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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