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Results from this study, published in BMC Medicine on May 18, entitled, Evaluation of a serum-based antigen test for tuberculosis in HIV-exposed infants: A diagnostic accuracy study, indicate that a nanoparticle-based mass spectrometry assay approach previously employed to detect adult tuberculosis (TB), also demonstrates strong TB diagnostic performance when ...
The AscencioDx uses sophisticated LAMP (loop-mediated isothermal amplification) molecular diagnostic chemistry and hardware technology first developed at the University of Washington to detect HIV viral variants. Now, the same approach is poised to make COVID-19 testing easier and more accurate for everyone. "The AscencioDx will set a new precedent in rapid ...
Why HIV Testing is Important HIV Testing is critical to reducing its spread. ...
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Delayed test results often mean HIV patients in Mozambique fail to get timely treatment, but new technology is reducing the need to send tests to far away laboratories, and speeding up test results and HIV treatment. Mozambique's Ministry of Health has increasingly begun experimenting with new technology to make ...
Yon Maycol, the local Lothario who has spent time in the US, is persuaded to take an HIV test before he begins dating his latest girlfriend Inocencia. Felipe woos Lesly who knows little about contraceptives and ends up pregnant, as her mother had done. In later episodes Felipe discovers he is HIV positive, develops AIDS and eventually dies from ...
Abbott and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) have joined forces to provide HIV testing to infants in all countries working in partnership with the CHAI. A key focus of this cooperation will be sub-Saharan Africa, which the World Health Organization estimates to account for 90 percent of global HIV infections in children. Under terms of ...
Chair of the Board, Professor Catherine Peckham, Institute of Child Health in London, commented, "The projects we have selected as a Board will make a real difference to communities affected by HIV. Some test new models of working which may be worthy of a wider application, meaning that their success can be realised not only during the funding phases, but ...
Untreated, HIV-infected infants and young children die more quickly and at higher rates. ...
This latest approval for the ABBOTT PRISM analyzer marks the completion of Abbott"s full menu of blood screening tests, which includes assays for hepatitis, HIV and other retroviruses. Most recently, the ABBOTT PRISM HIV O Plus test was added to the analyzer"s menu of available assays. ...