more than just a newspaper
An SSO Media Publication Est.
2008 www.
sstar.
net.
au Issue 082 Thursday 06 May 2010
Victoria
leads HIV
innovation
A new application to improve the
reading of HIV rapid test results
willbedevelopedinAustralia.
Victoria’s Burnet...
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more than just a newspaper
An SSO Media Publication Est.
2008 www.
sstar.
net.
au Issue 082 Thursday 06 May 2010
Victoria
leads HIV
innovation
A new application to improve the
reading of HIV rapid test results
willbedevelopedinAustralia.
Victoria’s Burnet Institute and
Australianbiomedicalapplications
company Axxin Ltd have joined
forces to develop a device which
allows for the precise reading of
rapid tests to determine if a patient
needsanti-retroviraltreatment.
Burnet Institute spokeswoman
Tracy Routledge told Southern
Star it was an important Australian
innovation and would take the
“human error” out of diagnosing if
and when people with HIV should
startmedication.
“This is designed for areas of the
world such as sub-Saharan Africa,
for example, where technology is
not as advanced or available,” she
said.
Routledge said the new
application was about finding
a definitive way to ensure antiretroviraltreatmentswereprovided
attheappropriatetime.
The rapid test measures CD4 T
cell
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