Offer Of On-Site Bundled Rapid HIV & HCV At Addiction Treatment Programs Increases Adoption Rate

When individuals in addiction treatment were offered a bundled test that included rapid testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), they were more likely to have received both test results during the first month after entering treatment. Of those who were offered the bundled test, 69% said they received the test results before the one-month assessment. By comparison, about 19% of a control group who were offered the two tests, but not the bundled test, also reported receiving their separate test results by the one-month assessment. Nearly 83% of the study participants completed the . . .