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Article: Faster HIV test may curtail the spread of AIDS.
- Article from:
- AIDS Weekly
- Article date:
- March 10, 2003
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2003 MAR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In January 2003, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved new rapid blood-testing technology for HIV. The simplified test no longer requires laboratory analysis, enabling clinic staff to deliver test results within an hour.
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus, associate director of policy for the UCLA AIDS Institute, and Mark Etzel, policy director for the UCLA Center for Community Health, propose that the improved technology could prompt new models for public HIV testing. The Lancet published their recommendations.
Rotheram-Borus and Etzel suggested new approaches for voluntary HIV testing to modify laborious pre- ...