Daily Archives: March 3, 2010

Twenty-Five Years of HIV self Blood Testing Helped to Positively Transform Global Health Crisis 1

In 1985, an estimated one in 100 blood transfusions (http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/blood_transfusion/en/index.html) was infected with the HIV virus in some United States cities. Twenty-five years later – thanks to the innovative development of critical diagnostic tests that can identify HIV in the blood – this risk is now minimal and millions of patients are safely given blood transfusions each [...]

What Regan Hofmann can tell us about home HIV tests, AIDS … and life 0

She walks into Boro Bean, a small coffeehouse in Hopewell, N.J., and you can’t decide if she’s a ray of sunshine or a beam of moonlight. She shimmers. She has long blonde hair and wears brown, high-heeled boots. Tall and model-thin, she is elegant even in torn jeans – and suddenly it seems like everyone [...]