Implementing HIV Screening

The ethical implications of screening for HIV: whose choice reigns?

Implementing an HIV and sexually transmitted disease screening program in an emergency department.

STUDY OBJECTIVE We assess the feasibility, effectiveness, and cost of routinely recommended HIV/sexually transmitted disease screening in an urban emergency department (ED). METHODS From April 2003 to August 2004, patients aged 15 to 54 years were offered rapid HIV testing, and those aged 15 to 25 years were also offered gonorrhea and chlamydia testing (nucleic acid amplification), Monday thr...

The case for HIV screening

Since 1997, heterosexual intercourse has become the largest and fastest growing exposure category for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnoses made in the UK; A large majority of heterosexual HIV infections recently diagnosed in the UK were acquired in Africa; The cost of managing an HIV-positive patient in the UK is around £15,000 per year; The total potential cost to the NHS of treating c...

Fragment screening and HIV therapeutics.

Fragment screening has proven to be a powerful alternative to traditional methods for drug discovery. Biophysical methods, such as X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, and surface plasmon resonance, are used to screen a diverse library of small molecule compounds. Although compounds identified via this approach have relatively weak affinity, they provide a good platform for lead development...

HIV screening in healthy volunteers.