Patients in a hospital's emergency department are to be tested for blood-borne viruses like HIV. The pilot project at ...

Health authorities in Rio de Janeiro are reviewing samples from 288 donors after discovering that two HIV-positive people ...

Clarence Peeples is part of a small club in the HIV community. He is using his experiences to help fight the virus among ...

Mumbai: The AIDS Society of India (ASI) has called upon the government of India, to include HIVST and Pre-Exposure ...

Affordability and mass distribution will be critical to the success of a long-lasting injectable HIV prevention drug that has ...

Officials in Brazil’s well-regarded public health system are scrambling to explain this week how six transplant patients ...

Doctors and front-line workers are watching closely as HIV rates increase significantly in Alberta.An annual Alberta Health ...

The national HIV prevalence was 16. 3% among adults aged 15 years and older, translating to an estimated 7. 4 million adults ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides funding for HIV prevention for the populations at the highest risk of ...

Testing for HIV can sound like a daunting task, bringing up a lot of ‘what if’ scenarios - though new medical advances mean ...

Two hospitals have begun offering opt-out blood tests for HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C in the hope it will lead to earlier diagnoses and save lives. They will be an option for anyone over the age ...

Predictive values depend on prevalence of the target analyte. NPVs of HIV tests and testing strategies are always high even if the sensitivity and/or specificity of tests is suboptimal (see text).