SURE CHECK® HIV Self-Test – Home Test Kit 99.9% accurate, gives your result in minutes – CE Marked

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If you make choices that put you at an increased HIV risk exposure it is a good idea to test every 3 months Don't put yourself or others at risk based on your test result. Using condoms is an effective and easy way to protect your own and others sexual health. The window period refers to the time after infection and before seroconversion, during which markers of infection (p24 antigen and antibodies) are still absent or too scarce to be detectable. Tests cannot reliably detect HIV infection until after the window period has passed. All tests have a window period, which varies from test to test. The HIV Self Test kit was created by BioSURE, a specialist diagnostic company who developed the world’s first approved HIV self-test to use blood and is now the market leading HIV self-test provider in the UK. The privately owned business has also already launched across South Africa, has launches underway in Kenya and Brazil, with many more countries in the pipeline. You can read your test result from 20 minutes after it has run, but do not read your result after 40 minutes as your result may not remain stable after this time.

Lewis JM et al. Field accuracy of fourth-generation rapid diagnostic tests for acute HIV-1: a systematic review. AIDS 29:2465–2471, 2015. I’m worried I have been exposed to HIV within the past 72 hours. You need to visit a specialist HIV clinic or A&E department as soon as possible, where you may be able to access a course of PEP (anti HIV medication). Our test will not give you an accurate result only 72 hours after potential exposure.

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Indicates products intended for use by both professional healthcare and untrained lay users at POC setting. ** Indicates products intended for use by healthcare professionals at POC setting. -Indicates products under development or research purposes only. Another study used a microfluidic chip to capture multiple HIV subtypes (A, B, and C) using protein G-based anti-gp120 antibody immobilization ( Figure 3C), where the different HIV subtypes were derived from viral culture supernatant and spiked in whole blood. The capture efficiency was 75.73% for subtype A, 73.67% for subtype B, and 74.67% for subtype C across 103–105 viral copies/mL [ 88]. Delaugerre C et al. Assessment of HIV Screening Tests for Use in Preexposure Prophylaxis Programs. Journal of Infectious Diseases 216:382-386, 2017.

There are variations in accuracy from one test to another, with some older tests that are not usually marketed in the UK having a sub-optimal sensitivity and specificity. However, evaluations by the World Health Organization of several rapid diagnostic tests that either have CE marks or are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), indicate that most are extremely accurate. The key measures of accuracy are sensitivity (the percentage of results that are correctly positive when HIV is actually present) and specificity (the percentage of results that are correctly negative when HIV is not present).Because of the possibility that a positive result from a single HIV test is, in fact, a false positive, the result is described as 'reactive' rather than 'positive'. If the result is reactive, this indicates that the test has reacted to something in the blood and needs to be investigated with follow-up tests. If your test result is negative, and you haven’t had a possible exposure during the previous three months, you can be confident you don’t have HIV.

All HIV tests need to have reactive results (a preliminary positive result) confirmed with further tests."Many tests are based on older ‘second-generation’ technology, but a ‘fourth-generation’ test with better performance is available. There were more invalid results in people using blood-based tests (0.4-9.5%) than studies using oral fluid-based tests (0.2-4.5%). Common errors included incorrect or incomplete specimen collection, spilling or incorrect use of the buffer solution, problems transferring blood samples, and difficulties with the interpretation of results.

We conducted a cross-sectional study to assess the usability and performance of blood-based HIVST. The primary outcomes of interest were the usability, acceptability, feasibility, and accuracy of blood-based HIVST kits in the hands of unassisted lay users. Usability was defined as the number and percentage of participants who completed all testing steps correctly without assistance and interpreted the results correctly. Acceptability was measured through acceptance of HIVST, willingness to recommend the test, desire to use the test in the future, preference for use of the test, and WTP for HIVST. Feasibility was measured by the ability of lay users to correctly use the self-test, succeed in obtaining an interpretable result, and correctly interpret the results. Accuracy was estimated by the sensitivity and specificity of HIVST kits compared to the gold standard enzyme immunoassay (EIA) or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test (i.e., Murex HIV Ag/Ab Combination).If you think you’ve been exposed to HIV in the last 72 hours, talk to your health care provider about post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) , immediately. Types of HIV Tests and Their Window Periods Find information on past and upcoming meetings of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and their recommendations on policies, programs, and research. Early diagnosis is crucial for HIV treatment, and self-testing provides a vital role in the prevention of late diagnosis, which remains stubbornly high. Although overall diagnoses are declining, late diagnoses count for about 40% overall with this group facing a tenfold increased risk of early mortality. [2]