A national tour providing free HIV testing has rolled into the Midlands.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation/Magic Johnson Testing America Tour arrived in Columbia on Wednesday and is offering free tests to anyone who is interested for two days this week.
The tests are given in their new state-of-the-art mobile facility that can be found at Lewis Scott Court in [...]
Categories: Gay HIV, HIV Self Test, HIV and Health
The other striking finding was that people who anticipated having HIV were less likely to discuss HIV within their households, 70% less likely to refer other family members for testing at the TB clinic (p = <0.01) and 53% less likely to refer them for testing at home (p =< 0.05).
Furthermore household members of index [...]
Categories: HIV Test, HIV and Health, Home HIV Test
A study presented at the recent Seventeenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) found that Ugandans presenting at a TB clinic grossly overestimated the likelihood that they had HIV.
It also found that those who thought they had HIV were significantly less likely to refer members of their household for HIV testing than those who [...]
Categories: HIV Test, HIV and Health