This Monday, June 27, is National HIV Testing Day. The day was created in 1995 by the National Association of People With AIDS to increase the number of people being tested for HIV, and got off to a ...

While it's disheartening that there's still so much stigma surrounding HIV, the good news is more people than ever are living well with a positive diagnosis. And, the majority of whom can actually ...

A new smartphone attachment could provide almost immediate, in-the-field test results for HIV and syphilis. The palm-sized device, tested recently on expectant mothers in Rwanda, could diagnose these ...

Though ELISA tests (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays) are the gold standard for diagnosing a whole slew of infectious diseases, the technology has remained stuck within hospital labs. What if you ...

Receiving a non-reactive HIV test result brings immense relief for most people, but understanding what this outcome truly means requires more than a simple celebration. While a negative result ...

HIV-specific antibodies of 3 immunoglobulin isotypes are readily found in human saliva, providing a potential second reliable method of detecting the virus that may be used as a painless alternative ...

A team of biomedical engineers at Columbia University has developed an iPhone dongle costing just $34 that can conduct HIV tests with similar accuracy to ‘gold standard’ laboratory equipment costing ...

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 ...

To ensure safer blood transfusions, the government has mandated the use of ELISA tests for infectious disease screening in blood centres. This regulation follows HIV cases linked to contaminated blood ...