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Last year will long be remembered for its remarkable advances in the diagnosis and prevention of HIV; OraSure Technologies gained FDA approval for the first-ever at-home, over-the-counter, and ...
At-home rape kits offer privacy for sexual assault victims, but many public health experts don’t recommend them. Here’s why.
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In 2004, the US Federal Trade Commission asked Federal Express and US Customs to confiscate shipments of the Discreet home HIV test kits, produced by Gregory Stephen Wong of Vancouver, Canada. [51] In February 2005, the US FDA issued a warning against using the rapid HIV test kits and other home use kits marketed by Globus Media of Montreal ...
Over-the-counter testing. In 2012 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it had approved the first, over-the-counter (OTC) sale of home HIV test kits that do not require sending sample to a lab. The Pennsylvania-based Orasure Company holds the patent and monopoly on the oral swab technology.
2012. Website. oraquick .com. OraQuick is an at-home HIV test manufactured by Orasure Technologies that was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 2012. [1] It is one of only two at-home HIV tests available. [2] OraQuick can be purchased by anyone above aged 17 over-the-counter at any major retail stores or online.
New advancements in technology have made testing for HIV as easy as testing for pregnancy. U.K. based company, BioSure, has developed an at-home HIV test that is 99.7% accurate. The test ...
Post-exposure prophylaxis. Other names. Post-exposure prevention. [ edit on Wikidata] Post-exposure prophylaxis, also known as post-exposure prevention ( PEP ), is any preventive medical treatment started after exposure to a pathogen in order to prevent the infection from occurring. It should be contrasted with pre-exposure prophylaxis, which ...