France okays home tests for HIV


In-home tests will be available in France 'for people who do not want to go to testing centres or hospitals' to learn about their HIV status.

Self-testing HIV kits will go on sale in France next year

Under a strategy aimed at reducing the spread of the virus causing AIDS, self-testing HIV kits will go on sale in France next year, the country’s health minister Marisol Touraine said on Thursday.

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