Commemorate World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day, a great opportunity to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and its effects on local and global populations.  If you love surfing the web, it’s really hard to miss – Google has its AIDS ribbon, and on both twitter and Facebook you can “go red” (check out JoinRed for more information).  What we want to do to draw attention to this epidemic today is talk about home hiv testing, which has become so easy with the advent of the home hiv test. Of course testing is important in terms of protecting yourself and others from HIV/AIDS....

HIV Testing – Recommended for All

Combining the home drug test world with the home health test world, the National Institutes of Health put out a press release last week, announcing that a grant received by the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA) would be used toward determining the merits of HIV testing with and without counseling. Make no mistake – the merits of testing, whether with a home HIV test or at a community center, are not at question:  as the release explicitly states, “Public health experts encourage everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 to be HIV tested.”...

Home HIV Test for World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day is on December 1 and we are delighted to join the Bloggers Unite event to recognize World AIDS Day.  Although we are still a few weeks away from the event, now is a great time to review some of the facts about HIV/AIDS worldwide and consider taking a home hiv test, if you have not done so yet.  It is one of the best things you can do to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. In a previous entry about our home aids test, we discussed that in one year (2006) an estimated 56,300 people became infected with HIV.  That is a huge number, and in the spirit of World AIDS...