WITH the introduction and availability of the HIV self-test many more sexually active individuals can test themselves at home and know their status in a matter of 20 minutes. This is quite handy as ...
Government has relaxed the age of people who are eligible to use OraQuick HIV self-test kit from 18 to 17 years and above, an official from the Ministry of Health has said. The move is aimed at ...
Advocates and health-care experts are concerned about the federal government's decision not to renew funding for HIV self-testing kits, a program that cost just over $17 million over two years, ...
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is currently on the rise in Ghana, and according to the Ghana AIDS Commission, over 100,000 persons in the country are HIV carriers but do not know. Due to the ...
MANILA, Philippines — According to the World Health Organization, the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system. As HIV targets the body’s white blood cells, ...
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) yesterday announced a time-limited free shipping discount for buying an HIV self-test kit from its self-test promotion Web site between tomorrow and Sept. 7. CDC ...
Adeagbo Oluwafemi Atanda receives funding from University of Iowa and National Institutes of Health. Engelbert Bain Luchuo and Oluwaseun Abdulganiyu Badru do not work for, consult, own shares in or ...
The first time Sophia Daniel, a sex worker, did an HIV test, it was from the comfort of her rented apartment in Suleja, a city in Niger state, Nigeria. Ms Daniel had stopped by a pharmacy a day before ...
MUMBAI: HIV diagnosis in India is set to take a big leap forward. A national study, unveiled last week, to gauge the acceptability and feasibility of self-testing kits to identify HIV got a massive ...
QUEZON CITY, (PIA) – Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing is now more accessible and convenient for residents in Quezon City with the launch of the “QC Self-TestXpress” program. The “QC ...
Coming from South Africa I'm amazed and almost appalled at how behind this seems. We have HIV clinics that do free testing that literally takes less than 5 minutes including the prerequisite pre (and ...
• Wanjiku, a community health volunteer in Molo, says the HIV self-testing kit has been a wonder kit in her bid to ensure people adopt it • She says new infections among teenage girls from low-income ...