Phones to be used to test for HIV soon

Are you worried about how to tell your HIV status or that of your partner? Are you troubled by the idea of voluntarily visiting a health centre to test your HIV status or that of your partner?

Now, there’s good news for you — especially if you have a smartphone. Very soon, you will be testing your HIV status or that of your partner through your mobile phone.

You will not have to visit any hospital to know whether you are HIV-positive or negative, thanks to US medical researchers who have developed a low-cost smartphone accessory that can perform a point-of-care test that simultaneously detects three infectious disease markers — HIV and syphilis — from a finger prick of blood in just 15 minutes. The device replicates, for the first time, all mechanical, optical, and electronic functions of a lab-based blood test without requiring any stored energy.

The necessary power is drawn from the smartphone.

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