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HIV testing to the test: does HIV testing promote HIV prevention in HIV-uninfected adults?
This journal is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics www.publicationethics.org Editor Jackie Cawsell (UK) BASHH Senior Editor Keith Radcliffe (UK) BASHH Column Editor Daniel Richardson (UK) Associate Editors Sevgi Aral (USA) Stefan Baral (USA) Adam Bourne (UK) Gary Brook (UK) Richard De Visser (UK) Henri de Vries (Netherlands) Claudia Estcourt (UK)...
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437 years of politicking and lawsuits, it finally looks possible. Last No-vember, after OraSure Technologies announced that it was seeking over-the-counter status for its rapid HIV-antibody test, the FDA convened a panel of experts to determine the requirements for approval of a home test. The OraQuick test, which is widely used in clinics, works like a home pregnancy test, except that it uses ...
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This study investigated heterosexual HIV risk behaviors, changes in stage of change for safer sex and factors associated with such changes, among a diverse sample of 560 heterosexually active individuals presenting at publicly funded HIV C&T sites. Questionnaires were administrated before HIV C&T, and three months afterwards. Positive serostatus was the most significant predictor of safer behav...
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متن کاملMaking HIV Testing Routine
In 1996, approximately one quarter of the AIDS prevention budget of the CDC was allocated to HIV testing, predominantly for low-risk populations.1It was their single biggest HIV prevention expenditure. Dr Eric Goosby, then director of the HIV/AIDS Policy Office, argued that this “was not efficient nor effective in picking up HIV-positive people."1 Some dozen years later, the CDC is promulgating...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of General Practice
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0960-1643,1478-5242
DOI: 10.3399/bjgp08x302754