Word: hiv
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...team of six researchers from Harvard and Tufts universities have proposed a mathematical explanation for how the risk of HIV contamination in the blood supply can be reduced. The group's findings appear in this month's issue of Medical Decision Making...
...developed a model which could show the overall probability for error [in HIV testing] which takes into account both random error and window error," said Eugene Litvak, senior research associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management...
When tests screen for HIV, they are determining the presence of antibodies to the HIV virus. Once infected, a person enters the window period in which they develop the antibodies to HIV...
...possible for infected individuals to test negative for HIV because their antibodies have yet to reach a detectable level...
Last December scientists at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that reported that in areas where AIDS incidence was high, there were fewer cases of HIV infection by blood transfusion, a finding which Litvak described as "counter-intuitive...