HIV/AIDS Self Tests is a confidential and anonymous test done at home for the determination of HIV/AIDS in the blood. The HIV/AIDS Self Tests facility come in kits and is readily available in most of the medical shops. The HIV/AIDS Self Tests kits are 99.9% accurate in determining HIV virus in the blood. The HIV/AIDS Self Tests is approved by the Food and Drug Administration, US. This facility is however not available in many of the US states. The HIV/AIDS Self Tests includes prepaid laboratory processing, personal coded identification (PIN) number, prepaid FEDEX Express mailer and toll free number 800 to know your test result.
The home collection kit can be purchased over the counter at most drug stores. To test yourself first prick your finger, place drops of blood on a specially treated card, and then mail the card in for testing at a licensed laboratory. You are given an identification number to use when phoning for the test results. You may also speak to a counselor before taking the test, while waiting for the test result, and when getting the result.
Most of the high risk groups use the HIV self-test kits improperly, and interpret test results inaccurately. Vernon Lee of the Tan Took Seng hospital in Singapore and his colleagues conducted studies at two major HIV/AIDS centers on 350 participants, 88 of whom were known to be HIV-positive they used using Laboratories' Determine HIV 1/2 self-test.
Before the study 90% of the study participants said that the steps were easy to understand and that the instructions were easy follow. However, after the test was conducted the researchers found that 85% of the participants did not perform all the steps of the test correctly or failed perform the test at all. As a result, the test result was invalid in 56% of the cases.
The researchers also found that 12% of study participants failed to interpret the test results correctly, out of which 2% incorrectly interpreted the positive results and 7% incorrectly interpreted negative results. Lee added that "blood sampling via finger prick and collection via capillary tube was difficult for participants." And the biggest problem for participants was collecting an adequate blood sample.
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