HIV Self-Test Empowers Patients

HIV self-test empowers patients. Worldwide it is estimated that as many as six in 10 HIV-infected individuals don't know their HIV status and don't seek testing. To increase awareness, knowledge and access to a convenient HIV screening option, and to expedite connections to treatment in nations hardest hit by the disease, Dr. Nitika Pant Pai developed a strategy based on the synergy of the Internet, an oral fluid--based self-test and a cell phone