Assoumou is an infectious diseases physician-scientist at Boston Medical Center. Miller is a research data associate within Dr. Assoumou’s I-CARE (Infectious Complications Assessment and Research) lab ...

HealthDay News — The social networking app Grindr is feasible for distributing HIV self-test kits to men who have sex with men (MSM), according to a study published online recently in Sexual Health. A ...

Background. Crowdsourcing, the process of shifting individual tasks to a large group, may enhance human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing interventions. We conducted a noninferiority, randomized ...

In populations with men at high-risk of HIV infection, advertising free HIV self-test kits on dating apps may be a feasible way of testing these individuals, according to new research published in the ...

Men who had sex with men had increased HIV testing after participating in an intervention. An intervention helped improve the number of men who had sex with men (MSM) who took an HIV test, according ...

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 ...

Sample blood collection tube with HIV test label on HIV infection screening test form. (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Room's Studio) A non-reactive HIV test result generally means good news – you ...

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other sources, there are approximately 1.2 million ...