Hong Kong could follow Taiwan by distributing HIV self-testing kits at convenience stores to address privacy concerns, a Taiwanese health official has said, a move that may raise testing rates for the virus that causes Aids.
The proposal by Dr Huang Shih-tse, a medical officer from Taiwan’s Centres for Disease Control, is an attempt to tackle the fear of identity exposure which he said remained a major obstacle in getting people to come forward for testing.
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