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Home HIV Testing
- Over-the-Counter HIV Rapid Tests: Issue Summary (March 2, 2006)
An in-depth review of the benefits, risks and other issues affecting whether these tests should be approved for use in the United States.
From U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Editorials Urge FDA to Approve OraSure Technologies' Rapid HIV Test for Home Use (November 3, 2005)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- FDA Panel to Review Proposal to Make OraSure Technologies' Rapid HIV Test Available for At-Home Use (October 13, 2005)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- FDA Warns Against Using Home HIV, Syphilis Tests Sold Over Internet (February 9, 2005)
Tests sold by Canadian company Globus Media are targeted; FDA notes that no at-home HIV tests are approved in the U.S.
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Home Testing Useful in Rural Uganda (March 7, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- In-Home HIV Collection Kits (February 2003)
To read PDF, click here
From Project Inform
- Home Diagnostic Tests: The Ultimate House Call? (November/December 2001)
In FDA Consumer, from U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Testing Yourself for HIV-1, the Virus That Causes AIDS (January 23, 2001)
From U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Home-Use Tests for HIV Can Be Inaccurate, FTC Warns (June 1999)
From U.S. Federal Trade Commission
- Home HIV Testing -- The Good and the Bad (February 1997)
From Rick Sowadsky, M.S.P.H.
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