WASHINGTON - American consumers may soon be able to test themselves for the virus that causes AIDS in the privacy of their own homes, after a panel of experts on Tuesday recommended approval of the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced July 3 it has approved the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, the first over-the-counter, self-administered HIV test kit to detect the presence of antibodies to ...

This year’s National HIV Testing Week has begun with Prime Minister Keir Starmer becoming the first serving UK prime minister to take a public HIV test. Starmer took the rapid home test at 10 Downing ...

The test stick is swabbed along the upper and lower gum once and placed into the test tube for 20 minutes before reading the results. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the approval ...

New Birth Missionary Baptist Church is launching a full-scale community health initiative on Sunday as it hosts World AIDS and HIV Awareness Sunday, offering free HIV testing, on-site screenings, take ...

The doctor is in — the mailbox, that is. You can now do self-administered tests for everything from thyroid function to HIV in the privacy of your own home — and that list continues to grow, as the ...

At-home STD tests and newly approved treatments are expanding options for screening, privacy and care as U.S. infection rates decline.