{"id":629,"date":"2012-05-18T14:27:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.better2know.co.uk\/?p=629"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T16:38:26","slug":"usa-news-home-hiv-testing-moves-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/usa-news-home-hiv-testing-moves-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"USA news: Home HIV testing moves closer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the USA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)<\/a>‘s advisory panel has this week voted unanimously to take forward plans to allow an oral (using a saliva sample) to be sold over the counter in the United States. This test, made by Oraquick, takes 20 minutes to run, and although not as accurate as a blood test (such as those offered by Better2Know in the UK).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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The FDA believes that the benefits of having easy access HIV testing outweigh the risks of a less accurate result. A final decision is expected later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the UK, it is estimated that a quarter of the people in the UK who are HIV+ do not know their status. Increasing HIV testing is seen as key to preventing new transmission, and early detection is key to ensuring longevity for HIV+ people and prevents them from ever developing AIDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trial conducted by Orasure shows that it only correctly identified HIV in 93% of people who were HIV+, and so some people would have a false negative result and perhaps continue their risky behaviour. However the FDA felt that the benefits of correctly identifying a number of people who were HIV+ outweighed this risk. The test is more accurate when conducted by a trained healthcare professional, rather than as in the trial, by the end consumer in their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver-the-counter testing has the potential to reach a far greater number of people who want to know their HIV status<\/a> on their own terms\u201d said Tom Donohue, the founder of an HIV awareness group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently all tests which provide a result to an HIV status at home are illegal in the UK. It is legal to collect a blood or saliva sample at home and send this to a laboratory for analysis, and where the method of giving the results to the patient can be carefully controlled, and in case of a positive result the appropriate referrals are made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the USA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)‘s advisory panel has this week voted unanimously to take forward plans to allow an oral (using a saliva sample) to be sold over the counter in the United States. This test, made by Oraquick, takes 20 minutes to run, and although not as accurate as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[8,20,14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8092,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/8092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.better2know.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}