Home Test — hiv testing

With the incidence of HIV infection on the rise in Australia we must look at where the disease is coming from and focus on better education around HIV testing and HIV prevention to prevent this situation. In Australia 2011 showed an 85 % increase in infection rates and over the last 10 years a 50% increase. To solely attribute this to Australians returning from overseas travel with HIV is far from accurate. However we should of course take note to the following realities: -Thailand and Bali are extremely popular destinations for Australians seeking sun, fun and often a sexual encounteror...

Firstly, please consider this…”THE United States has authorised sales of the first over-the-counter home testing kit for HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS.” This means if you are concerned about HIV and wish to take an HIV test, you can purchase from an HIV home test kit from your local pharmacy. It’s convenient, safe and accurate. It simply leads to more people being tested for HIV and sooner. Sadly in Australia we are still some way from this and only recently has Australia started using rapid test kits, something most developed countries have been using for several years now....

Many individuals considering an HIV test will do so because they are worried about risk of infection and believe they may be showing HIV symptoms. HIV is a virus that enters the body through an exchange of bodily fluids and then like any virus produces a reaction within the body. This can be a typical viral reaction such as flu like symptoms or more sever such as fevers and rashes or it may produce no symptoms. At some stage, normally around 4-12 weeks the body will produce antibodies to the HIV virus. At this stage a 3rd generation HIV test...

More than half of this planet is affected with HIV virus that has killed more than a billion of earth’s population till date. This virus results in people getting affected with Aids, a disease that slows down your immunity and makes you susceptible to various dangerous and life threatening illnesses. Aids is directly related to HIV but a person infected with this virus need not have Aids at all. HIV is quite difficult to detect but one must take care to check for the following if he or she thinks something is wrong with their health. For example: one most...

Times have changed significantly as now days people who think they might have contracted HIV or have the virus present in their system can now conduct HIV test using the HIV test kit that has transformed the way the medical industry works. Today, anyone who suspects himself to be a possible carrier of this dreaded disease can get to know his status within a few minutes by conducting home tests that have been made available by many governments and ministries like the FDA in the United States. The organization such as this one has made testing for HIV quite easy...