How you offer patients an HIV test has a significant impact on the likelihood of them accepting tests, finds a study published by The BMJ today. In the first randomized controlled trial to evaluate ...
Funding for an Atlanta-based program that has provided nearly 1 million free HIV home testing kits nationwide has been restored, allowing it to continue for another year. Together Take Me Home, based ...
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other sources, there are approximately 1.2 million ...
A research project to test patients in hospitals' emergency departments for blood-borne viruses including HIV has helped 183 patients get support, an NHS trust said. Opt-out tests were introduced at ...
Hundreds of people have been diagnosed with either HIV or hepatitis B since A&E departments across the Midlands started routine testing - a process said to be "quite literally saving lives". The ...