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  2. HIV screening in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The National HIV Testing Day on June 27 is organized annually by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's AIDS.GOV program [8] and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention [9] Walgreens is one corporate sponsor, and offers free HIV testing on that day at a number of its drugstore locations (140 cities in ...

  3. OraQuick - Wikipedia

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    On November 7, 2002, the FDA approved the OraQuick test as the first rapid HIV test, providing results in as little as 20 minutes using whole-blood specimens obtained from a fingerstick or venipuncture. Prior to this approval, HIV tests required blood samples to be sent to a laboratory, resulting in longer wait times for results.

  4. Window period - Wikipedia

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    The window period for HIV may be up to three months, depending on the test method and other factors. RNA based HIV tests has the lowest window period. Modern and accurate testing abilities can cut this period to 25 days, 16 days, or even as low as 12 days, again, depending on the type of test and the quality of its administration and interpretation.

  5. HIV-positive transplants now permitted for livers and kidneys

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    The new rule — part of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act — is intended to shorten wait times for transplants, as reported by the AP. It went into effect on Wednesday, Nov. 27. It went ...

  6. US approves life-saving organ transplants between ... - AOL

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    Even more striking, their median wait time drops from 60.8 months to just 10.3 months—a decrease in wait time that can mean the difference between life and death,” the National Institutes of ...

  7. Diagnosis of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    However, based upon the HIV prevalence rates at most testing centers within the United States, the negative predictive value of these tests is extremely high, meaning that a negative test result will be correct more than 9,997 times in 10,000 (99.97% of the time). The very high negative predictive value of these tests is why the CDC recommends ...

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