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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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