In many poor countries, mothers with HIV face a stark choice: to nurse their infants, and risk passing on HIV through their breast milk — or to formula feed, and deprive their infants of much of the natural immunity needed to protect against fatal diseases of early infancy. Now, two studies supported by the National [...]
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New York City sexuallytransmitted infection clinics have stopped have stopped using oral fluid with OraSure Technologies’ OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV 1/2 Antibody Test because of an increasedrate of false positives, Bloomberg reports. According to city healthofficials, the rate of false positives from the test rose as high as 1.1% — orabout five times higher than [...]
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About 200 people in NYC got false positive HIV test results. I cant imagine hearing those words. But with the continual spread of HIV throughout every community, many people do. As you would expect, getting fals HIV test results is devastating.
Many of those, who got false positive HIV test results, need a tremendous amount of [...]
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The Latino HIV Task Force, a group of health agencies and community organizations, will offer free HIV testing June 27 as part of the annual National HIV Testing Day. The task force will provide tests from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Southwest Multi-Service Center, 6400 High Star.
Hispanics in Houston and Harris County represent [...]
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New York City health department plans an initiative to give free HIV tests to everyone living in Bronx. This decision comes right on time as yesterday reports came out that New York residents have the highest rate of practicing unsafe sex.
The Bronx HIV free testing project is planned for three years and is aimed at [...]
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