Rapid HIV testing increases the rate of HIV detection in men who have sex with men: using rapid HIV testing in a primary care clinic

Beng Eu; Norman Roth; Mark Stoové; Mark O'Reilly; Edward Clarke

doi:10.1071/SH13138

Rapid HIV testing increases the rate of HIV detection in men who have sex with men: using rapid HIV testing in a primary care clinic

Sex Health. 2014 Mar;11(1):89-90. doi: 10.1071/SH13138.

Authors

Beng Eu¹, Norman Roth¹, Mark Stoové², Mark O'Reilly¹, Edward Clarke³

Affiliations

¹ Prahran Market Clinic, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Vic. 3181, Australia.
² Burnet Institute, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Prahran, Vic. 3181, Australia.
³ Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Vic. 3216, Australia.

PMID: 24670302
DOI: 10.1071/SH13138

Abstract

Rapid HIV testing was approved in Australia in December 2012. Data was collected to describe the early experience of using rapid testing in Australia but as the information was collected, the authors noted that there appeared to be a high rate of HIV diagnoses amongst rapid testers. Further analysis confirmed this impression, when the rate was compared to a baseline rate of HIV diagnoses over the 32 months before the rapid testing started (4.1% vs 1.3%).