The Kenyan government should ensure that strong human rights protections are included in plans for expanded home-based HIV counseling and testing, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the public health minister. Earlier in 2009, Kenya started testing people for HIV in their own homes, and aims to test more than four million [...]
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Americans enrolled in the U.S. government-run Medicare health insurance program will now be covered for tests that screen for HIV, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which oversees the program for the elderly and disabled, said on Tuesday.
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The tests to detect the virus that causes [...]
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An HIV testing kit that delivers results in minutes will soon be available in six health regions in Saskatchewan, the provincial health ministry announced Tuesday.
Currently, most tests to determine if someone is HIV-positive are done through a clinical laboratory, which can take two to three days to produce results. The wait can be longer if [...]
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