US approves first over-the-counter HIV home-use test
4 July 2012 Last updated at 00:07
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18700121
A home HIV test is expected to go on sale in the US within months, after winning regulator approval.
The OraQuick test checks saliva from a mouth swab for HIV and can produce results in 20 to 40 minutes.
Government estimates suggest 1.2 million people in the US are HIV-positive, but 20% do not know they are.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said it hopes the over-the-counter test will reach people who might not otherwise get tested.
The test is expected to be sold in as many as 30,000 pharmacies and homeware shops, as well as online.
The manufacturer, OraSure, has not said how much the test will sell for but confirmed it would cost less than $60 (£38).
“We expect all the major retail outlets to carry this product,” chief executive Douglas Michels said.
The company is planning a “pretty massive effort” to market the test, Mr Michels added.
‘Empowering people’
Approval of the test has been praised by HIV/Aids awareness groups.
“This test will allow anyone to empower themselves to know their HIV status when, how and with whom they want to,” Tom Donohue, founding director of Who’s Positive, told the Associated Press.
But the FDA has highlighted in its announcement that the test may not be 100% accurate, and has stressed the need for additional testing by medical professionals to confirm the result.
OraSure said that in trials the test was able to correctly detect HIV among people carrying the virus only 92% of the time.
It was 99% accurate for negative results – or identifying that someone does not carrying the virus.
Meanwhile, Dr Jonathan Mermin, director of the HIV unit at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said people who receive negative results should take the test again after three months, because it can take weeks before antibodies to HIV appear.
Healthcare professionals have been using a version of the OraQuick test since 2002.
For the last two decades there have been about 50,000 new cases of HIV in the US each year.
AIDS is a collection of old well-known diseases that have been with us from day like syphilis. AIDS also has a few new synthetic petrochemical causes such as isobutyl nitrite. This hiv virus is the biggest farce going thats very dangerous to humanity since its the mindset and drug taking which will kill millions of people. Once you watch the two documentaries called ‘House of Numbers’ then you will laugh at how much of a farce hiv really is. I also recommend the book ‘AIDS Inc’ by Jon Rappoport and other videos that have been out much longer such as ‘HIV=AIDS Fact or fiction’.
It time to wake up before people are mandatory screening through the medical mafia system by The Worshipful Company of Barbers and The Worshipful Company of Apothecares starts taking place. Then those false diagnosed will be demonized by The Worshipful Company of Insurers. Finally if they have sex with someone and not mention their false-hiv diagnosis then The Worshipful Company of Mercers will have them in the Courts and imprisoned.
All profits from the drug sales will go into the coffers of The City of London Corporation via TheCityUK run by The Worshipful Company of Mercers. You will be depopulated in accordance with the Global 2000 Report of the Club of Rome run by the Peccei family. Do not be hoodwinked and understand quickly they want you off this planet asap and they are doing this by all means necessary. Gallo is a fraud under the thumb of the Jesuits who awarded him the Sword of Loyola for his destruction of the enemy. Who created vaccines? Jesuit soldier, Francis Xavier SJ for the purpose of mass poisoning from day one veiled as something good as its conducted through the quack allopathic medical mafia system.
-= The Unhived Mind
AIDS and the non-existent hiv fraud
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