A simple stick to find out if you have the AIDS virus in only twenty minutes from a sample of saliva. In London to test for HIV is now easier. The test, already in use in the United States, was approved by the National Health Service (NHS) and London is the first city in Britain to offer this service. Can be done in less than half an hour without doing blood tests.
With a special toothbrush, in fact, take a sample of saliva and indicators that are reported on the buffer if the body has developed antibodies against HIV. Since March last year 200 people have already done this test and the local health care company hopes that will come to 250 patients a month, hoping to start distributing the buffers also on the premises.
"It is important - said Merle Symonds, head of the department for diseases of the sexual NHS in London - that HIV will take time before it becomes ill. Really hope that the saliva tests could encourage many people to discover if they have contracted the virus. Before we know the better. " In health care, the company is the fact that many British people do not know they are sick with AIDS. Only in 2007 in Great Britain there were more than 7700 new cases of AIDS, the highest number among the countries of Western Europe. Of these only 41% were gay men, while most were heterosexuals who have contracted HIV while they were abroad.
With a special toothbrush, in fact, take a sample of saliva and indicators that are reported on the buffer if the body has developed antibodies against HIV. Since March last year 200 people have already done this test and the local health care company hopes that will come to 250 patients a month, hoping to start distributing the buffers also on the premises.
"It is important - said Merle Symonds, head of the department for diseases of the sexual NHS in London - that HIV will take time before it becomes ill. Really hope that the saliva tests could encourage many people to discover if they have contracted the virus. Before we know the better. " In health care, the company is the fact that many British people do not know they are sick with AIDS. Only in 2007 in Great Britain there were more than 7700 new cases of AIDS, the highest number among the countries of Western Europe. Of these only 41% were gay men, while most were heterosexuals who have contracted HIV while they were abroad.