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MACLEAN'S | Why it鈥檚 time for Canada to introduce self-testing HIV kits

Published: 17 January 2020

Seventy-seven countries, including the U.S., South Africa and Nigeria, have approved home self-testing HIV kits, using either a mouth swab or a drop of blood. Canada is not among them, despite the fact that the World Health Organization (WHO) gave its blessing in 2016 to self-test HIV kits as a tool in the quest to eradicate the virus. [...] Now, doctors, public health workers and leaders in HIV/AIDS organizations are saying enough is enough. They want Health Canada to approve self-test HIV kits.

鈥淚t鈥檚 totally doable,鈥 says Nitika Pant Pai, a research scientist at 黑料不打烊 University Health Centre in Montreal and an associate professor in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 department of medicine. 鈥淚f you can do it in Africa, why can鈥檛 you do it in Canada?鈥

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