Monday, June 27, is National HIV Testing Day — an annual awareness campaign “to encourage people to get tested for HIV, know their status and get linked to care and treatment.” HIV, a virus that ...

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 ...

Sample blood collection tube with HIV test label on HIV infection screening test form. (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Room's Studio) A non-reactive HIV test result generally means good news – you ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Shelby County Health ...

ATLANTA – The number of people who are infected with HIV and don't know it, both nationally and in Michigan, could decrease radically under proposed government guidelines that would make testing for ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The Alabama Department of Public Health announced today that its STD/HIV at-home specimen collection initiative has been renewed. The testing kits will be available for order ...

Learning the best type of HIV prevention for those at highest risk can start with conversations about their options, writes Zandraetta Tims-Cook, MD, MPH, AAHIVS In the US, we have made remarkable ...

The actor announced his HIV-positive status in November 2015. — -- Charlie Sheen's 2015 announcement that he was diagnosed with HIV years earlier seems to have sparked higher interest in testing ...