Studies suggest that anywhere from 2 to 13 percent of patients in emergency rooms are HIV positive, according to Charlotte Gaydos, a clinical microbiologist at Johns Hopkins University. So the emergency room seemed like a logical place to test whether an untrained person is able to self-administer his or her own HIV test, and then [...]
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- November 14, 2009 – 10:33 am
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In an effort to curtail the global spread of AIDS, Johns Hopkins recently conducted an in-hospital trial that offered self-administered HIV tests to Emergency Room visitors. The standard tests – the same that health care workers currently use – require little more than a simple pin prick or mouth swab added to a test tube [...]
Categories: HIV Test
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- November 14, 2009 – 10:32 am
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