A potential exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) might make someone wonder how soon they can get results from a test. Some HIV tests can conclusively detect the virus in as little as 6 weeks ...

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 ...

The dating app is partnering with a public health initiative to get more at-home tests to people in groups most affected by the virus. Jessica was a writer on the Wellness team, with a focus on health ...

An HIV screening test checks to see if you’ve been infected with the HIV virus. About 1.2 million people in the U.S. have HIV. But about 1 in 7 people don’t know their HIV status, and about 40% of new ...

Receiving a non-reactive HIV test result brings immense relief for most people, but understanding what this outcome truly means requires more than a simple celebration. While a negative result ...

Superdrug has become the first high-street retailer in the UK to offer HIV self-tests, meaning you can test yourself for HIV at home by swabbing your gums and get results back in just 20 minutes.

If you think you’ve been exposed to the virus that causes AIDS and want to take a test to find out, timing is important. After the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) enters your body, there’s a ...

The actor announced his HIV-positive status in November 2015. — -- Charlie Sheen's 2015 announcement that he was diagnosed with HIV years earlier seems to have sparked higher interest in testing ...

Federal health officials have approved the first at-home test to detect HIV antibodies, a move aimed at identifying and treating the estimated 20 percent of infected people in the U.S. who don’t know ...

A single positive HIV viral load test often falsely identified HIV infection in people who were using long-acting cabotegravir (Apretude) for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), according to results from ...