Letter: California's position on pregnancy testing.

Cunningham, Gwen

doi:10.2105/ajph.66.7.691

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“…Yet, failing to act in light of recent advances in HIV testing technologies and HIV treatment may present greater risks to public health in the end than in deciding to move forward. In 1977, editorials in the American Journal of Public Health warned professionals of the hazards of home pregnancy tests (144)(145)(146)(147); today these tests are routine and widely accepted. In an era of home pregnancy testing, self-tests to screen for colorectal cancer, and self breast examinations, rapid self-testing for HIV may add to the array of client-controlled technologies through which consumers are increasingly enabled to become partners with their healthcare providers in detecting disease and promoting health.…”

Section: Effective Detection Of Hiv S110mentioning

confidence: 99%

Effective Detection of HIV

Newman

Etzel

2000

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

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Summary: Biomedical advances, new HIV testing technologies, and policy shifts in the last 15 years have created substantial new challenges and opportunities for service providers, policy makers, and researchers regarding broad scale identification of HIVseropositive persons. Effective HIV testing will be achieved when we: (1) increase the number of high-risk persons tested; (2) decrease the time from HIV infection to detection; (3) increase testing acceptability; (4) increase the proportion of individuals tested who receive their results; and (5) increase the proportion of individuals tested seropositive who are linked to care. Strategies to enhance effectiveness include implementing new testing technologies and delivery modalities; expanding access to clientcontrolled testing; targeting providers' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding HIV testing; mainstreaming HIV testing as routine clinical care; targeting persons who engage in high-risk behaviors and those in high-risk groups; and implementing a national behavioral surveillance system. Addressing these challenges will improve HIV detection in the United States, which is vital to both HIV prevention and treatment.

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Section: Effective Detection Of Hiv S110mentioning

confidence: 99%