Should Human Immunodeficiency Virus Testing Be Replaced With Combined Blood-Borne Virus Testing?

Published in: Open forum infectious diseases (2024)

Standalone HIV testing is a missed opportunity- a recent systematic review showed eight cases of viral hepatitis would be missed for each new HIV diagnosis. The review builds on a decade of research demonstrating the additional benefit of BBV testing.

Keyphrases

human immunodeficiency virus
hiv testing
men who have sex with men
antiretroviral therapy
systematic review
hepatitis c virus
hiv positive
hiv infected
hiv aids
sars cov