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HIV self-testing is easy, effective — and underutilized

Assoumou is an infectious diseases physician-scientist at Boston Medical Center. Miller is a research data associate within Dr. Assoumou’s I-CARE (Infectious Complications Assessment and Research) lab ...
Self

You Can Get Free At-Home HIV Tests Every 3 Months Until 2027. Here’s How

If you’ve ever wondered about your HIV status but haven’t gotten the test for whatever reason—time, cost, anxiety—now is your chance to bypass at least some of these concerns. It’s super easy to fill ...
Monthly Prescribing Reference

Over-the-Counter HIV Test Approved for Adolescents

The test stick is swabbed along the upper and lower gum once and placed into the test tube for 20 minutes before reading the results. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Self-Testing in HIV Shows Promise in Early Studies

Self-testing for HIV enhances autonomy and is supported by policies in over 100 countries, promoting early detection and treatment initiation. The Together TakeMeHome program distributed self-test ...
Business Insider

HIV Self-Testing Just Got Faster: FDA Approves the 1-Minute INSTI® HIV Self Test

RICHMOND, British Columbia, Oct. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HIV testing just became faster, easier, and more accessible. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the INSTI ® HIV Self ...
Healio

National HIV self-testing program finds high demand, many testing for first time

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A CDC program to distribute free HIV self-test kits has mailed nearly double the number of tests in its first ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Self-Testing for HIV Commonly Adopted in MSM From China

Young and educated men who have sex with men (MSM) were more likely to use self-testing for HIV. Testing for HIV is crucial for patients to begin treatment with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and ...
Becker's Hospital Review

FDA approves 1-minute HIV self-test

The FDA has approved bioLytical Laboratories’ Insti HIV self test. The company touts it as the fastest home-use HIV test available in the U.S., with results in 60 seconds or less. BioLytical said the ...
standardmedia.co.ke

WHO issues new guidelines on HIV testing to check spread

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. An HIV testing exercise in Makueni in 2018. WHO has introduced new guidelines on HIV ...
New Atlas

Self-testing is accurate & removes the stigma of checking for STIs

If the COVID-19 pandemic taught us anything, it’s the value of testing for infection at home without the need to visit a health facility. Now a series of studies have found that testing for sexually ...
ABC News

CDC allegedly cancels Emory's HIV self-testing program after not enough workers left to oversee it

A researcher said 7,000 Americans learned they had HIV through the program. A local HIV program has allegedly been canceled as a result of funding cuts, firings and layoffs that have recently hit the ...