It also has a 99.98% test specificity which is the percentage of results that will be negative when HIV is NOT present. That means you'd get a false positive once out of every 5,000 results.

Antibody test: This test looks for antibodies (IgG) to HIV in the blood or saliva. In general, antibody tests that use blood from a vein can detect HIV sooner than at-home tests done with blood ...

The 4th Generation HIV Test Kit is designed to detect both HIV antibodies and the p24 antigen, which is a protein produced by the virus during its early stages. This dual detection capability ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced July 3 it has approved the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, the first over-the-counter, self-administered HIV test kit to detect the presence of antibodies to ...

There is another problem facing the home HIV test kit. It is not 100 percent accurate. A negative result can occur by error, misusing the test or because the infection is too recent to register.

One negative out of 12 is actually a false result – the person may actually be infected by HIV but the test didn't pick it up. A positive result is much less likely to be wrong: Only 1 in 5,000 ...

That means that the test could miss one person for every 12 HIV-infected people who use the kit. The test was accurate 99 percent in ruling out HIV in patients not carrying the virus.

So far, the Together TakeMeHome program has given away 125,000 HIV test kits, Grindr said in its blog post, adding that one-third of those kits were sent to people taking a test for the first time ...

If a test is positive, "I emphasize that this can be managed, it can be treated, you can have a full, long life," says Stacey Vlahakis, M.D., of the HIV center at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

OraWellUSA in Philadelphia has stopped manufacturing its HIV test kits following inspections by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this year, according to a warning letter from the FDA ...

The FDA just published a press release announcing they have approved the first over-the-counter in-home private use HIV testing kit, the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test. This is a big deal, as many, many ...