Category: HIV AIDS

Would you like to test whether you have the human immuno virus (HIV) but are too embarrassed to go to a testing clinic?

There’s good news for you if you live in the U.K. because British health authorities have given the go signal for the marketing of BioSURE, the first-ever HIV self-testing kit.

With BioSURE, you can do the test yourself in the privacy of your own home. This sure sounds ideal but is this test reliable? Can it really detect whether a person has HIV?

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Oral HIV tests: 2 % less accurate, but good enough? Recent news that a saliva-based HIV diagnostic test is only two percent less accurate than traditional blood tests has intrigued HIV activists and health experts across the world, with many hoping that this will lead to widespread self-testing that can help curb the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.

In the 31 years since it was first recognized by the United States Centers for Disease and Prevention in 1981, the disease has reached epidemic proportions. It claimed about 2.1 million lives in 2007, despite improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many parts of the world.

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