Canada Approves First HIV Self Test in Long Awaited Move to Reduce Screening Barriers

Canada Approves First HIV Self Test in Long Awaited Move to Reduce Screening Barriers
Health Canada headquarters in Ottawa in a file photo. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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Federal regulators have approved the first HIV self-test in Canada in a long-awaited move that experts have called critical to reaching people who don’t know they have the virus.

Health Canada granted a medical device licence on Monday to a one-minute, finger-prick blood test manufactured by Richmond, B.C.-based bioLytical Laboratories.