OBJECTIVE In response to the current syphilis epidemic among men who have sex with men, the San Francisco Department of Public Health sought to increase syphilis testing by offering testing in nonclinical settings. GOAL The goal of this study was to collaborate with a community-based organization, Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc. (ISIS), to design an innovative, confidential, onl...

The purpose of this study was to determine if anonymous and confidential testers differ in recency of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection at time of testing and prevalence of antiretroviral drug (ARV) resistance. We examined data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-sponsored Antiretroviral Drug Resistance Testing project, which performed genotypic testing on leftover HI...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) counseling and voluntary testing (CT) programs have been an important part of national HIV prevention efforts since the first HIV antibody tests became available in 1985. In 1995, these programs accounted for approximately 15% of annual HIV antibody testing in the United States, excluding testing for blood donation. CT opportunities are offered to persons at r...

hearings, according to the general principles, appear in open courts. therefore, confidential and private hearings are exeptional by legal stipulation. this exeption is depicted and stipulated in arbitration. the charactristics of arbitration are being confidential and private. these two are main points for reterring to arbitration. in jurisprudence, the consensus is only on the private aspect ...

Testing of database applications is of great importance. Although various studies have been conducted to investigate testing techniques for database design, relatively few efforts have been made to explicitly address the testing of database applications which requires a large amount of representative data available.As testing over live production databases is often infeasible in many situations...

CONTEXT Policies requiring confidential reporting by name to state health departments of persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have potential to cause some of them to avoid HIV testing. OBJECTIVE To describe trends in use of HIV testing services at publicly funded HIV counseling and testing sites before and after the implementation of HIV reporting policies. DESIGN AN...

Q: Why choose laboratory-based oral fluid drug testing? A: Oral fluid testing offers confidential lab-based drug test results from a minimallyinvasive, observed collection. It is excellent at detecting recent drug use because it can screen for drugs in a donor’s system soon after use. By using oral fluid instead of urine drug testing, employers can oversee their donors as they collect their own...