{"id":19372,"date":"2019-02-23T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T11:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19372"},"modified":"2019-02-23T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T11:03:52","slug":"new-diagnostic-tools-to-help-in-the-fight-against-hiv-in-east-and-southern-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/23\/new-diagnostic-tools-to-help-in-the-fight-against-hiv-in-east-and-southern-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"New Diagnostic Tools to Help In the Fight against HIV in East and Southern Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_38756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38756\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38756\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maravipost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/C128_Hologic_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Automated HIV-1 assay\" width=\"768\" height=\"508\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Automated HIV-1 assay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>[LILONGWE, 20 February]<\/strong> \u2013 Hologic, Inc. announced the launch of new HIV diagnosis tools in Malawi. The Aptima\u00ae HIV-1 Quant Dx assay will provide new approaches to make it quicker and easier for laboratories to diagnose and monitor HIV infections in the country. The assay \u2013 the technical term for a laboratory test \u2013 has received two new CE marks. First, certification to use for early infant diagnosis to qualitatively detect HIV-1 RNA as an aid in diagnosing HIV-1 infected infants under 18 months. And second, testing of dried blood spots to monitor viral load and disease progression in HIV-1 infected individuals. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/magazine\/entertainment\/2019\/02\/22\/news\/fight-against-hiv-aids-not-over-warns-david-furnish-1558516\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Automated HIV-1 assay [LILONGWE, 20 February] \u2013 Hologic, Inc. announced the launch of new HIV diagnosis tools in Malawi. The Aptima\u00ae HIV-1&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}