Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Counselors visited couples five times during pregnancy and postpartum to discuss HIV status and relationship ...
Walgreens is teaming up with Greater Than HIV, a public information initiative of KFF, along with health departments and community organizations, to provide free HIV testing and counseling as part of ...
Contrary to what experts have believed, briefly counseling people who take a rapid HIV test on how to reduce their risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is not effective, a new study shows.
Largest HIV testing event in the United States increases access and supports a more coordinated, re-energized response to HIV DEERFIELD, Ill. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Walgreens is teaming up ...
CDC recommends that young men who have sex with men have an HIV test every 6 months. Following almost 5 years of substantial declines, new HIV infections began to level off in 2013. The CDC estimates ...
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 ...
Every Wednesday night, I'm the bearer of life-altering news for men and women here in San Francisco -- their HIV test results. As a volunteer test counselor for the UCSF AIDS Health Project, my job is ...
More assistance is on the way for HIV patients in west Louisville.The grand opening will take place Monday afternoon for Volunteers of America's Louisville HIV Services office on west Broadway.The ...
Last week a panel appointed by the influential Institute of Medicine issued a report recommending that all pregnant women be tested for the AIDS virus as part of routine prenatal care. There are ...
OraSure Technologies Inc. (Bethlehem, PA) has taken another step toward seeking FDA approval for home use of its OraQuick Advance rapid HIV test. In March, the company announced that it had contracted ...
Use of data from voluntary HIV counselling and testing clinics for HIV surveillance in Africa is not appropriate, according to a Viewpoint in this week's issue of The Lancet. The rapid expansion of ...