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The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether or not to approve diagnostic kits for infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that would allow blood collection at home. A person would use a lance provided in the kit to obtain blood from a finger, place a drop on a filter paper, and mail the specimen to a laboratory, where screening and confirmatory tests, if necessary, would be performed. The results would be obtained over the telephone through the use of a code number. As discussed elsewhere in this issue of the Journal,¹ proponents of these tests believe that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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