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Afghanistan

• Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan
  • National HIV Testing and Counseling Guideline [2008]

Africa

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • From caution to urgency: the evolution of HIV testing and counselling in Africa [2012]

Botswana

• Ministry of Health Botswana
  • Two and a Half Years of Routine HIV Testing in Botswana [2007]
  • HIV Testing

China

• International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Quality assurance in the HIV/AIDS laboratory network of China [2010]

International

• Médecins Sans Frontières
  • Challenges and opportunities for the implementation of virological testing in resource-limited settings [2012]

Kenya

• Liverpool VCT, Care and Treatment
  • 2007 Kenya counselling and testing week documentation process [2008]

• Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation
  • National Guidelines for HIV Testing and Counselling in Kenya [2008]

• Population Council - Kenya
  • Feasibility, acceptability, effect, and cost of integrating counseling and testing for HIV within family planning services in Kenya [2008]

South Africa

• Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Challenges in implenting HIV load testing in South Africa [2010]

Spain

• Medicina Oral, Patología Oral y Cirugía Bucal
  • Role of the dental surgeon in the early detection of adults with underlying HIV infection / AIDS [2012]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• PLoS Medicine
  • Retention in HIV Care between Testing and Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review [2011]

Trinidad and Tobago

• Ministry of Health Trinidad and Tobago
  • Same-visit HIV testing in Trinidad and Tobago [2010]
  • National HIV Testing and Counselling Policy [2006]

Uganda

• Ministry of Health Uganda
  • Uganda HIV/AIDS sero-behavioural survey 2004-2005 [2006]
  • Serologic Diagnosis of HIV Infections: Evolving Roles of National Reference Laboratories [2002]

United Kingdom

• British HIV Association
  • British HIV Association guidelines for the routine investigation and monitoring of adult HIV-1-infected individuals 2011 [2011]

• Health Technology Assessment
  • Cost-effectiveness of screening high-risk HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) and HIV-positive women for anal cancer [2010]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • UK national guidelines for HIV testing 2008. British Association for Sexual Health and HIV [2008]

• National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  • Increasing the uptake of HIV testing among men who have sex with men [2011]
  • Increasing the uptake of HIV testing among black Africans in England [2011]

• Scottish Government Health Directorates
  • Improving the detection and diagnosis of HIV in non-HIV specialties including primary care [2007]

United States of America

• American College of Physicians
  • Screening for HIV in Health Care Settings: A Guidance Statement From the American College of Physicians and HIV Medicine Association [2009]

• Body: An AIDS and HIV Information Resource
  • HIV Testing

• CDC HIV/AIDS
  • HIV Testing

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Previous HIV Testing Among Adults and Adolescents Newly Diagnosed with HIV Infection — National HIV Surveillance System, 18 Jurisdictions, United States, 2006–2009 [2012]
  • Results of the Expanded HIV Testing Initiative --- 25 Jurisdictions, United States, 2007--2010 [2011]
  • HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex with Men --- 21 Cities, United States, 2008 [2011]
  • Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health-Care Settings [2006]
  • Guidelines for Laboratory Test Result Reporting of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Ribonucleic Acid Determination [2001]

• Food and Drug Administration
  • HIV Home Test Kits

• HIV InSite - University of California San Francisco
  • Counseling & Testing for HIV: Related Resources

• Lab Tests Online - American Association for Clinical Chemistry
  • HIV

• Mass.Gov
  • Clinical Advisory - Routine HIV Screening in Primary and Urgent Care Settings in Mass.

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Screening for HIV in health care settings: a guidance statement for the American College of Physicians and HIV Medicine Association [2009]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Costs and Consequences of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Recommendations for Opt-Out HIV Testing [2007]

• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  • Screening: Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection [2005]

• Utah Department of Health
  • Rapid HIV Testing – Procedures Guide [2006]

• Wisconsin Medical Journal
  • Updated CDC Guidelines for HIV Testing: A Review for Wisconsin Practitioners [2008]

WHO

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Scaling up HIV testing and counselling in the WHO European Region as an essential component of efforts to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support : policy framework [2010]
  • Scaling up HIV testing and counselling as an important component of efforts to achieve universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support in the WHO European Region: WHO technical consultation : Ljubljana, Slovenia 8-10 June 2009 [2010]

• World Health Organization
  • Provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling: one-day training programme, field test version April 2011 [2011]
  • Improving HIV testing and counselling services : technical briefing paper [2011]
  • HIV testing in young children : technical briefing paper [2011]
  • HIV self-testing among health workers: a review of the literature and discussion of current practices, issues and options for increasing access to HIV testing in Sub-Saharan Africa [2011]
  • Guide for monitoring and evaluating national HIV testing and counselling (HTC) programmes: field-test version [2011]
  • A handbook for improving HIV testing and counselling services - field-test version [2010]
  • Guidance on provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling in health facilities [2007]
  • HIV Testing and Counselling

Articles in journals

• American Family Physician
  • HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral [2004]

• American Journal of Reproductive Immunology
  • Methods for Evaluation of Humoral Immune Responses in Human Genital Tract Secretions [2011]

• Annali dell’Istituto Superiore di Sanità
  • Laboratory diagnostics for HIV infection [2010]

• Annals of Emergency Medicine
  • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and HIV Screening: The Emergency Medicine Perspective [2011]

• Annals of Family Medicine
  • Consistency of State Statutes with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention HIV Testing Recommendations for Health Care Settings [2009]

• Asian Pacific Journal of Allergy and Immunology
  • Immune status monitoring of HIV/AIDS patients in resource-limited settings: a review with an emphasis on CD4+ T-lymphocyte determination [2012]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Low-cost tools for diagnosing and monitoring HIV infection in low-resource settings [2012]
  • "E" is for everything else, not least for expanding HIV testing in Europe [2012]
  • HIV testing in national population-based surveys: experience from the Demographic and Health Surveys [2006]
  • Diagnostic tests in HIV management: a review of clinical and laboratory strategies to monitor HIV-infected individuals in developing countries [2006]

• Clinical and Vaccine Immunology
  • Frequency, Causes, and New Challenges of Indeterminate Results in Western Blot Confirmatory Testing for Antibodies to Human Immunodeficiency Virus [2007]

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Integrating HIV Screening into Routine Health Care in Resource-Limited Settings [2010]

• Health Education Research
  • HIV testing among men who have sex with men (MSM): systematic review of qualitative evidence [2011]

• Indian Journal of Medical Research
  • HIV testing in developing countries: What is required? [2011]

• Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Dried blood spots can expand access to virological monitoring of HIV treatment in resource-limited settings [2009]

• Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • The Detection of Acute HIV Infection [2010]
  • Patient needs and point-of-care requirements for HIV load testing in resource-limited settings [2010]
  • Laboratory operations, specimen processing, and handling for viral load Testing and surveillance [2010]

• Malaysian Family Physicians
  • Is HIV screening in the general population cost-effective? [2008]

• Medical Journal of Malaysia
  • Changing Approaches in HIV Testing [2007]

• PLoS Medicine
  • Late HIV Diagnosis: Bad Medicine and Worse Public Health [2007]
  • HIV-1 Viral Load Assays for Resource-Limited Settings [2006]

• Topics in Antiviral Medicine
  • HIV diagnostic testing: evolving technology and testing strategies [2011]

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