New HIV Testing Technologies:Implications for Your Laboratory

Course Title: New HIV Testing Technologies: Implications for Your Laboratory

Course Description: Since CDC and APHL recommended a new test algorithm for laboratory diagnosis of HIV infection in 2014, new HIV tests have received approval for use in the US. This intermediate-level presentation will review the 2014 recommended algorithm, newly approved HIV test technologies and their implications for the algorithm. Potential challenges and opportunities that these new technologies create for your laboratory will be discussed.

Objectives: At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the latest HIV testing technologies
• Describe the implications of new testing technologies on the 2014 HIV testing recommendations for US laboratories
• Discuss the possible challenges and opportunities the latest HIV testing technologies present for laboratories in the US

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Audience: This intermediate-level webinar is of interest to public health laboratory professionals.

Additional Information: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Laboratory Training and Services Branch, is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program. This webinar is approved for 1.0 hour of P.A.C.E.® credit, and has been approved for 1.0 contact hours in the General (Microbiology/ Mycology/ Parasitology) category for Florida Laboratory Licensees.

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