The global control of HIV relies on timely and accurate diagnosis to initiate treatment and reduce onward transmission. Diagnostic strategies span laboratory-based immunoassays, point-of-care rapid ...

Predictive values may be defined as the likelihood that a result is correct. Predictive values depend on prevalence of the target analyte. NPVs of HIV tests and testing strategies are always high even ...

Rapid HIV testing has transformed the diagnostic landscape in settings where laboratory infrastructure is scarce, enabling same-day results, timely linkage to care and streamlined treatment initiation ...

Assoumou is an infectious diseases physician-scientist at Boston Medical Center. Miller is a research data associate within Dr. Assoumou’s I-CARE (Infectious Complications Assessment and Research) lab ...

During ARS, the viral load is very high—often >100,000 copies/mL. The standard test to detect ARS is the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). False-positive HIV viral loads do ...

As of the end of 2023, nearly 40 million people worldwide were living with HIV, including approximately 1.2 million in the United States. In the same year, about 630,000 people globally died from AIDS ...

Researchers at New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry), in collaboration with Rheonix, Inc. (Ithaca, NY), are developing a novel test for Zika virus that uses saliva to identify ...

The westbound McClugage Bridge in Peoria, Illinois will close on July 1st for a multi-year rehabilitation project, with traffic being diverted to the newer eastbound bridge and reduced to one lane in ...

Current tuberculosis infection tests struggle to detect the disease in those with HIV. A common co-infection, HIV can hide TB from traditional tests by eliminating the immune cells relied upon to ...

We need to make prevention accessible, treatment immediate, and long-term engagement effor ...

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