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An HIV test you can take at home that’s as simple as a home pregnancy kit has just been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. The OraQuick test will soon be out on the market. It allows you to take an HIV test in the privacy of your home. It uses a mouth swab and gives results in 20 to 40 minutes. Longtime AIDS researchers hail this as “a positive step forward” and could do a lot to control the 30 year old epidemic. If an infected person is treated immediately on antiretroviral drugs, it lowers by as much as 96% the chance that he or she will transmit the virus to someone else.
Read more on the New York Times.
Read more on the New York Times.
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