Call for HIV testing in casualty
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A hospital consultant is calling for widespread HIV testing for accident and emergency department patients.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 30 -- U.N. health officials on Wednesday called on nations with severe AIDS epidemics to offer routine, confidential HIV tests to all patients at health-care facilities in hopes of dramatically expanding the number of those who know they have the virus.
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Aids activist Zackie Achmat has joined the chorus of calls for TB treatment to be combined with HIV testing and anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment, echoing claims that it could save the lives of up to 500 000 HIV-infected Africans a year.
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All Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 should be routinely tested for HIV to help catch infections earlier and stop the spread of the deadly virus, federal health recommendations announced Thursday say.
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TRENTON, N.J. -- 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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Delegates at a conference in London will debate today how to tackle HIV, after the United Nations called for more work to combat complacency over deaths from Aids-related illnesses.
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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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Public Health Director Arnold Perkins says released convicts who make their home in Alameda County should be tested for HIV before they get here, a bold plan he says will help
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Couples in Singapore may face mandatory HIV tests before marrying, Singapore media report, a week after the government said all pregnant women would be screened for HIV/AIDS to stem a rise in new infections.
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The Center for Disease Control now recommends that HIV tests be routine for adults and teenagers, because too many Americans have the disease and don't know it -- and are passing it around. In Sex Drive Daily.
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A doctor retained by the World Bank to examine a program to combat the spread of HIV in India has been warning officials for months that defective testing kits could be putting people at risk.
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Gay men in Guangdong now have access to free and confidential HIV tests. The AIDS Prevention and Treatment Institute of the Guangdong Provincial Centre for Disease Control started offering the tests yesterday.
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A Chinese province which has been ravaged by AIDS plans to force all couples in the worst-hit areas to take compulsory HIV tests before being married, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
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The Chinese Ministry of Health announced here Wednesday that China will conduct nationwide HIV testing among people with blood selling history in the 1990s in aneffort to detect AIDS patients on early stage.
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SINGAPORE : Parliament will be debating the AIDS issue and the fight against it, when it sits on November 24. The Senior Minister of State for Health, Dr Balaji Sadasivan, told
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A HOSPITAL has taken two years to tell hundreds of former patients they may be at risk of HIV or hepatitis. The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London suspended a test in 2002 for fear it could spread deadly blood viruses.
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Rapid HIV tests lead to more  people getting tested and receiving their results, according to  a study by the US Department of Veterans Affairs presented at  the 16th International AIDS Conference.