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People in Canada have a new, less invasive way to test for HIV at home, following Health Canada's approval of an oral self-test. U.S.-based OraSure Technologies said Tuesday its OraQuick HIV self-test has been greenlit for sale, making it the first of its kind approved in Canada. The test uses a swab of saliva to check for the virus, and can be done at home, giving results in as little as 20 minutes, according to OraSure. The MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto is its exclusive distributor in Canada, and will begin taking online orders for the tests today and shipping them out in the coming weeks.

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OraSure Applied sciences: An Uneven Guess

Time to journey through the new medical technology of at home medical tests. The Covid-19 tests were the beginning. Today, July 12, 2022 in the center of the Prudential Center Mall in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States of America, I am using 2nd generation HIV detection at home medical kit, OraQuick by OraSure Technologies. My test started at 2:25 PM EST, read time is 2:50 PM EST, and discarded the contents of test in nearest trash bin is 2:55 PM EST. My results came out NEGATIVE.

Performing my private at home tasks in public further supports how I do not care who sees how my care is done. Self-care comes in a variety of forms. Hospitals, clinics, and laboratories tests are further solidified and cemented results. Do NOT touch me in Massachusetts or New England without consent or manners.

Time to journey through the new medical technology of at home medical tests. The Covid-19 tests were the beginning. Today, July 12, 2022 in the center of the Prudential Center Mall in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States of America, I am using 2nd generation HIV detection at home medical kit, OraQuick by OraSure Technologies. My test started at 2:25 PM EST, read time is 2:50 PM EST, and discarded the contents of test in nearest trash bin is 2:55 PM EST. My results came out NEGATIVE.

Performing my private at home tasks in public further supports how I do not care who sees how my care is done. Self-care comes in a variety of forms. Hospitals, clinics, and laboratories tests are further solidified and cemented results. Do NOT touch me in Massachusetts or New England without consent or manners.

AbbVie and OraSure Partner Up

OraSure Technologies OSUR +2.35%  , a market leader in point of care diagnostics, announced today that it has entered into a Master Program Services and Co-Promotion Agreement with AbbVie under which AbbVie and OraSure will co-promote the Company’s OraQuick® HCV Rapid Test in the United States. The product will be used to test individuals at-risk for hepatitis C (HCV). OraSure will be…

Screening Sex Partners With Rapid In-Home HIV Tests

Although the manufacturer of the first rapid in-home HIV test is not promoting its use to screen sex partners, 70 percent of people in the company’s clinical trials said they would either definitely or very likely use it that way.

OraQuick In-Home HIV Test Available Online

The FDA approved the first at-home HIV test this past Tuesday. The OraQuick test, manufactured by OraSure, uses a mouth swab to provide test results within 20 to 40 minutes. Advocates in the HIV/AIDS community are praising the potential effects of the test on lowering infection rates. Transmission rates of HIV can be lowered by as much as 96 percent by administering anti-retroviral drugs to an infected person.