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Detecting primary HIV infection in Africa without viral load test is possible

US and African researchers have developed an algorithm, based on rapid test results, symptoms and risk behaviours, that makes it possible to accurately detect acute

Published
23 October 2007
By
Derek Thaczuk
Types of HIV tests
Rapid HIV tests: false positive risk without confirmatory test highlighted in Uganda

Patients who have a `weakly positive` result on a rapid HIV antibody test should not be told they are HIV-positive without a confirmatory ELISA or

Published
27 August 2007
By
Tom Egwang
HIV testing programmes
Opt-out HIV testing not efficient in US, suggests researcher

A researcher at Johns Hopkins University has calculated that well-funded, carefully targeted HIV testing and counselling programmes will detect significantly more undiagnosed HIV infections, prevent

Published
27 June 2007
By
Michael Carter
Types of HIV tests
One in forty negative HIV tests in Malawi may mask acute infection, need for more sensitive testing

Almost one in forty of those who tested HIV-negative in a large clinic cohort in Lilongwe, Malawi, turned out to have acute HIV infection that

Published
16 January 2007
By
Keith Alcorn
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 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
Families and children
Rapid antibody tests can diagnose HIV infection in infants almost as well as DNA PCR, South African study shows

The use of two separate rapid antibody tests can accurately diagnose HIV infection in infants as early as four months after birth, and in a

Published
19 June 2006
By
Anon
Types of HIV tests
UK study finds rapid HIV test safe, reliable, and cost effective

A rapid HIV test that has been available in the UK for more than four years, and which delivers results 15-minutes after taking a finger

Published
03 June 2004
By
Edwin J. Bernard
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Rapid HIV tests should be used on women in labour

HIV tests used be used in antenatal units that are able to promptly determine if a woman is infected with HIV, and local protocols need

Published
28 January 2004
By
Michael Carter
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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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