HIV/AIDS Topics FDA Approves OraQuick Home HIV Antibody Test
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- Category: HIV Testing & Diagnosis
- Published on Tuesday, 03 July 2012 00:00
- Written by Press Release
On July 3, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, the first over-the-counter self-administered HIV antibody test that can be performed entirely outside a medical setting.
Bathhouses Can Be Good Venues for HIV Testing and Linkage to Care
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- Category: HIV Prevention
- Published on Friday, 29 June 2012 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Bathhouses frequented by gay and bisexual men may be good places to find people with undiagnosed HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases and encourage them to enter ongoing care, researchers reported in the February 1, 2012, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 
Prompt Effective Treatment Maximizes Life Expectancy for People with HIV
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- Category: HIV Treatment
- Published on Tuesday, 22 November 2011 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
HIV positive people who receive a timely diagnosis and start treatment with suppressive antiretroviral therapy (ART) are likely to lose less than a decade of life expectancy -- comparable to the effect of cigarette smoking -- according to a mathematical model described in the November 14, 2011, advance online edition of AIDS.
National HIV Testing Day -- Take the Test, Take Control
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- Category: HIV Testing & Diagnosis
- Published on Wednesday, 27 June 2012 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Today, June 27, is National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), initiated 19 years ago by the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to raise awareness about HIV and encourage people to learn their status.
Teens Should Receive Routine HIV Testing, Says American Academy of Pediatrics
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- Category: HIV Testing & Diagnosis
- Published on Tuesday, 01 November 2011 00:00
- Written by American Academy of Pediatrics
Adolescents and young adults should be offered risk reduction counseling and routine testing in an effort to prevent HIV transmission and to initiate treatment in a timely manner, according to a recent policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
FDA Committee Recommends Approval of First Home HIV Test
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- Category: HIV Testing & Diagnosis
- Published on Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee this week unanimously recommended approval of the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test. While the test can sometimes give false-negative or false-positive results, the committee decided the benefits of more people learning their HIV status outweigh the potential risks.
CDC Testing Push Increased HIV Diagnosis
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- Category: HIV Testing & Diagnosis
- Published on Tuesday, 05 July 2011 12:11
- Written by Liz Highleyman
A CDC effort to promote HIV testing begun in 2007 led to nearly 2.8 million tests and more than 18,000 new diagnoses, according to MMWR.
Oral HIV Tests May Be Less Accurate than Blood Tests
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- Category: HIV Testing & Diagnosis
- Published on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
Oral HIV antibody testing is quick and convenient, but this method is not quite as accurate as blood testing in low-prevalence settings, being more likely to produce false-positive results, according to a study review and meta-analysis described in the January 24, 2012, online edition of The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Expanded HIV Screening and Treatment Could Prevent More than 200,000 New Infections
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- Category: HIV Testing & Diagnosis
- Published on Friday, 28 January 2011 12:55
- Written by Liz Highleyman
One-time HIV screening of the entire adult population plus annual screening of people at higher risk could prevent nearly 7% of projected new infections, while treating more eligible people with antiretroviral therapy (ART) could raise the proportion of averted infections to about 17%, according to research described in the December 21, 2010, Annals of Internal Medicine. Investigators estimated that the cost of the combined strategy would be about $21,500 per year of life saved.
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