A new HIV saliva test you can take from the privacy of your own home was launched in the UAE.
Aware Oral, already available in Africa, China and India, will now be available, on prescription, from pharmacies here. The test, which will cost AED 125, claims to be 99.8 per cent accurate, and can be read within 20 minutes of testing.
The launch forms part of the UAE’s awareness campaign, “Awareness Leads to Prevention”, and suppliers of the product here, the Bin Salem Group, hope that the ease and privacy of the test will help combat the spread of the disease.
AIDS figures for the Middle East are sketchy, but with a growing transient population from countries with spiraling HIV sufferers, building awareness, and developing screening methods, is crucial.
Drawing blood is not glamorous and it’s not also an easy process. It can be very traumatic experience. This test offers a safer, more private and very accurate screening process. If the test is positive then people need to see their physician for a follow-up.
The test can be obtained by making an appointment with GP who can then prescribe the kit for it to be used privately.
I wonder why it should be prescribed by the doctor. Why it’s not like the pregnancy tests that every one can buy it at any time?
Aware Oral, already available in Africa, China and India, will now be available, on prescription, from pharmacies here. The test, which will cost AED 125, claims to be 99.8 per cent accurate, and can be read within 20 minutes of testing.
The launch forms part of the UAE’s awareness campaign, “Awareness Leads to Prevention”, and suppliers of the product here, the Bin Salem Group, hope that the ease and privacy of the test will help combat the spread of the disease.
AIDS figures for the Middle East are sketchy, but with a growing transient population from countries with spiraling HIV sufferers, building awareness, and developing screening methods, is crucial.
Drawing blood is not glamorous and it’s not also an easy process. It can be very traumatic experience. This test offers a safer, more private and very accurate screening process. If the test is positive then people need to see their physician for a follow-up.
The test can be obtained by making an appointment with GP who can then prescribe the kit for it to be used privately.
I wonder why it should be prescribed by the doctor. Why it’s not like the pregnancy tests that every one can buy it at any time?
2 comments:
Why it's available by perscribtion only?? It should be as the prgnancy test, free for any one to buy at the pharmacy...
I agree. It could be embarassing to go at the GPs and ask perscribtion for HIV test.
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