'Opt out' HIV testing launched
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Countries with HIV epidemics should test everyone attending health centres unless they 'opt out', say experts.
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South Africa, burdened with one of  the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on  Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.
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HIV testing will soon become part of routine prenatal care and be required for some newborns in New Jersey under a new law that supporters say is putting the state in the forefront of the national fight against HIV transmission to babies.
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There are now 53,000 adults living with HIV and Aids in the UK, over a quarter of whom remain unaware of their infection. These figures will be presented to the Health Protection Agencyâs Board tomorrow (Friday) in the agencyâs annual report on HIV.
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Patients are to be given the right to opt out of having information stored on the NHS electronic database.
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A committee in the Indian state of Maharashtra provisionally approves compulsory HIV tests before marriage.
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SINGAPORE : The Health Ministry is reviewing the requirements for pregnant women to be screened for HIV/AIDs, and may make it compulsory.
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Alarmed by the growing number of AIDS patients, China will conduct nationwide HIV testing within the next six months of people with blood selling history in the 1990s to detect the virus at an early stage.
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South Africans tired of flowers and chocolates might want to give their loved-ones a more practical gift this Valentine's Day -- an AIDS test.
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More than two thirds of the HIV cases are diagnosed in London, however this figure can be misleading.
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BEIJING: The southern province of Guangdong is offering free HIV tests to homosexual men as part of its fight against the spread of the virus which causes AIDS.
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NEW YORK  - Self-assessments may offer the push some HIV patients need to make lifestyle changes for the better, a new study suggests.
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East China&#39;s Shandong Province is planning to offer free HIV/AIDS tests to people who have been paid to give blood to help prevent the spread of the killer disease.
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There are 14,300 adults living in the UK who are unaware that they are carrying the HIV/Aids virus, according to the shock findings of a Health Protection Agency (HPA) report.
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The first large-scale trial of an HIV vaccine is set to begin in South Africa, it has been announced.
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KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysian researchers say they have developed the world&#39;s fastest home test kit for the HIV virus. The seventh generation HV-7 kit is expected to be available in local hospitals by early 2005
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A needle-exchange program is the best way to stop the alarming increase of HIV and hepatitis C in Canadian prisons, medical and legal groups said Wednesday.