HIV Home Test Kits Inaccurate And Illegal - FTC Consumer Alert
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Home-use HIV test kits sold on the Internet and tested by the Federal Trade Commission were shown to give inaccurate results, FTC states in a June consumer alert. FDA has not approved any home-use test kit for HIV in the U.S., but does allow the sale of one home collection kit by Home Access Health, in which the user collects a blood sample at home and mails it to a laboratory for testing.