A team of researchers from WHO has used computer modelling to show that universal voluntary HIV testing, combined with immediate antiretroviral treatment (ART) following a positive diagnosis, would ...
The state Office of AIDS estimates that nearly 40,000 Californians have HIV and do not know it. They do not know it because their medical providers do not routinely screen them for HIV. They do not ...
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union is concerned that the CDC’s new HIV testing recommendations may harm the health of those newly diagnosed with HIV and compromise the civil rights of ...
New HIV infections declined by 30 percent in southern African communities where health workers conducted house-to-house voluntary HIV testing, referred people who tested positive to begin HIV ...
HIV testing must be voluntary. Patients must know that testing is planned and be informed that they will be tested unless they decline (“opt out”). The patient should be provided information about HIV ...
RAM K. SHRESTHA, STEPHANIE L. SANSOM, APRIL RICHARDSON-MOORE, P. TYLER FRENCH, BETH SCALCO, MARLENE LALOTA, MICHELLE LLANAS, JAMES STODOLA, ROBIN MacGOWAN and ANDREW MARGOLIS Objective: To assess the ...
More women than men are turning up for voluntary HIV testing and counselling in the county. Health personnel in the county have revealed that 70 per cent of those who turn up for testing are women.
March 5 (UPI) --Nations throughout Africa have faced some of the worst HIV infections rates in the world, but new research could soon reverse that trend, a new study says. The HIV rate in southern ...