Tag: home testing

  • Charity And Celebrities Team Up To Promote Free Home HIV Tests For National HIV Testing Week

    Charity And Celebrities Team Up To Promote Free Home HIV Tests For National HIV Testing Week

    A leading HIV awareness charity is promoting HIV testing, and combating stigma, during this year’s National HIV Testing Week – by employing the power of new technologies. Saving Lives is a national charity with the aim of reducing the amount of undiagnosed HIV in the UK. Through its network of celebrity ambassadors, and advocates living…

  • First data on uptake of HIV self-testing in the UK

    There’s an important news item currently on the aidsmap website: Between April 2015 and February 2016, almost 28,000 people have paid £29.95 for a kit allowing them to test for HIV at home, according to a presentation at the British HIV Association conference in Manchester last week. Marketing on Grindr has been important to driving…