UNICEF - Rapid HIV test kits

There are nearly 33 million people infected with HIV world wide. Yet while the pandemics impact is increasingly felt, surveys in the Sub-Saharan regions have shown that only a small percentage of men and women have been tested for HIV and received the results. Greater knowledge of HIV status is critical to expanding access to treatment, care and support in a timely manner, and offers people living with HIV an opportunity to receive information and tools to prevent HIV transmission to others.
Knowledge of serostatus via antibody testing is the entry point for most HIV prevention and care interventions. Testing is necessary to protect blood supplies, to identify HIV-positive pregnant women for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), to monitor disease trends in populations, and for clinical diagnostic purposes. The availability of rapid HIV-antibody tests has made field diagnosis of HIV inexpensive and technically feasible in low-resource areas.

Inspired Gifts is an innovative program that gives you the opportunity to purchase actual life-saving items such as HIV test kits that will be shipped directly from both the UNICEF warehouse in Copenhagen and one of UNICEF's many suppliers to one of over 150 countries where UNICEF serves.

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