Antenatal HIV testing. Anonymous testing misleads patients.

Cost effectiveness of expanded antenatal HIV testing in London.

BACKGROUND Recently the Department of Health announced the introduction in England of voluntary universal HIV screening in early pregnancy to prevent vertical transmission. New data have shown the importance of HIV infection in infants born to mothers who were HIV-negative in early pregnancy and who acquired HIV later in pregnancy or during lactation. This requires consideration of repeat testi...

A randomised controlled trial of different approaches to universal antenatal HIV testing: uptake and acceptability and Annex: Antenatal HIV testing - assessment of a routine voluntary approach.

The authors thank Jeni Beecham, Margaret Brandeau, Miranda Mugford, Marie-Louise Newell, Angus Nicoll, Tony Oliver, Doug Owens, and Richard Smith, as well as our referees for their invaluable assistance at various stages of the study. Contributors: MJP and EJB conceived the idea for the project. MJP developed the cost effectiveness model in conjunction with EJB, SM, LS, MDSW, HH, and JCJ. EJB a...

Antenatal detection of HIV: national surveillance and unlinked anonymous survey.

Tine testing in HIV positive patients.

BACKGROUND The incidence of tuberculosis is increased in HIV positive patients. Purified protein derivative (PPD, tuberculin) testing has not been performed routinely on patients infected with HIV in the UK and its usefulness in diagnosing tuberculosis in these patients is unclear. METHODS 198 HIV positive patients were Tine tested and a CD4+ lymphocyte count and chest radiograph were perform...

An innovative HIV testing service using the internet: Anonymous urine delivery testing service at drugstores in Beijing, China

Innovative human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing services will be needed to achieve the first 90 (90% of HIV-positive persons aware of their infection status) of the 90-90-90 target in China. Here, we describe an internet-based urine delivery testing service delivered through three pilot drugstores in Beijing that send specimens to a designated laboratory for HIV. From May 2016 to January ...