Helping More People Know Their HIV Status National HIV Testing Day highlights the importance of knowing one's HIV status and connecting with ...

The test stick is swabbed along the upper and lower gum once and placed into the test tube for 20 minutes before reading the results. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval ...

Assoumou is an infectious diseases physician-scientist at Boston Medical Center. Miller is a research data associate within Dr. Assoumou’s I-CARE (Infectious Complications Assessment and Research) lab ...

Self-testing for HIV enhances autonomy and is supported by policies in over 100 countries, promoting early detection and treatment initiation. The Together TakeMeHome program distributed self-test ...

Approximately four decades after its first discovery in 1983, HIV/AIDS remains a major global public health problem. It is worth noting that tremendous advances have been made in combating HIV/AIDS in ...

An oral, at-home HIV test that delivers results in as little as 20 minutes and has been used in the U.S. for well over a decade is finally coming to Canada. OraSure Technologies announced Tuesday its ...

A team of Northwestern University scientists spanning disciplines have developed new technology that could lead to the creation of a rapid point-of-care test for HIV infection competitive with ...

As of the end of 2023, nearly 40 million people worldwide were living with HIV, including approximately 1.2 million in the United States. In the same year, about 630,000 people globally died from AIDS ...