HIV Testing (Health)

Health Officials: Home HIV Tests Skew Ability To Track Virus

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 28th, 1997

Home HIV tests could be hampering the ability of South Carolina to fight the spread of the virus.

Laboratories, doctors, hospitals, and others who administer HIV tests are required by law to report positive cases to the state Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). But companies that sell the home tests don't have to report HIV positive cases.

"We don't really know what the impact is because we don't have that information," said Lynda Kettinger, DHEC's sexually transmitted disease program.

Kettinger said the two companies that make home tests promised to give DHEC quarterly reports showing the numbers of HIV...

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