Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1017 Wednesday 14 April 2010
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Researchers call
for rapid testing
ANI LAMONT
RapidHIVTesting:it’sabouttime,leading...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1017 Wednesday 14 April 2010
your community • your voice • your newspaper
Researchers call
for rapid testing
ANI LAMONT
RapidHIVTesting:it’sabouttime,leading
Australian HIV researchers said at a
National Centre in HIV Social Research
conference.
Rapid HIV Testing (RHT) has been
available in the United Kingdom, the
United States and many non-Western
countries for years, but the Australian
Therapeutic Goods Administration and
the Department of Health and Ageing
haverestricteditsclinicalusehere,except
in remote communities with limited
accesstolaboratories.
DrafteditionsoftheSixthNationalHIV
Strategy indicate that the Government
may loosen these restrictions, although
towhatextentremainsuncertain.
Researchers attending the 11th Social
Research Conference on HIV in Sydney
welcomed the prospect of wider RHT
availability, but they qualified that the
technologyhaslimitations.
Compared to traditional
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