More Self-Testing for HIV Maintains Patient Care During Virus

The Trump administration is planning to expand HIV self-testing as part of its push to lower new infections by more than 90% in the next decade, top federal health officials said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will increase self-testing and self-collection of specimens, which could allow for broader access to preventive medicine even after the coronavirus is contained, Eugene McCray, director of the CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, said Monday at the AIDS 2020 conference. Preventive medicine requires a negative test to be prescribed.

He also said the agency is working to get patients 90 days of their ...