Rapid HIV testing increases the rate of HIV detection in men who have sex with men: using rapid HIV testing in a primary care clinic
Beng Eu A D , Norman Roth A , Mark Stoové B , Mark O’Reilly A and Edward Clarke CA Prahran Market Clinic, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Vic. 3181, Australia.
B Burnet Institute, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Prahran, Vic. 3181, Australia.
C Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Vic. 3216, Australia.
D Corresponding author. Email: beng@prahranmarketclinic.com
Sexual Health 11(1) 89-90 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH13138
Submitted: 4 September 2013 Accepted: 13 January 2014 Published: 4 March 2014
Abstract
Rapid HIV testing was approved in Australia in December 2012. Data was collected to describe the early experience of using rapid testing in Australia but as the information was collected, the authors noted that there appeared to be a high rate of HIV diagnoses amongst rapid testers. Further analysis confirmed this impression, when the rate was compared to a baseline rate of HIV diagnoses over the 32 months before the rapid testing started (4.1% vs 1.3%).
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