HIV diagnostic testing in practice: Clinical insights, laboratory challenges, and emerging solutions
Tuesday, August 18 at 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST / 11:00 EDT / 08:00 PDT
Despite significant strides in prevention, treatment, and PrEP accessibility, infectious diseases like HIV remain a formidable global health challenge. With an estimated 41 million people living with HIV and 1.3 million new infections recorded in 2024, the mandate for timely, accurate diagnosis and immediate linkage to care has never been more critical.
Because early infection is often asymptomatic, routine HIV screening and high-quality lab diagnostics serve as the primary defense in timely diagnosis and prevention efforts.
Current clinical guidance emphasizes broad screening strategies and the utilization of fourth-generation HIV Ag/Ab combo assays. These advanced immunoassay HIV solutions are essential for identifying the p24 antigen, HIV-1 antibody, and HIV-2 antibody to detect both established and acute infections at the earliest possible stage.
Join this SelectScience® webinar with our expert panel to explore how innovation can be translated into practice through a comprehensive HIV solution, ensuring confident implementation of an HIV Ag/Ab combo screen within healthcare systems worldwide.
Accreditation statement
SelectScience® is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program.
Webinar details
- Cost: Free to attend
- Location: Online
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Instruction level: Intermediate
Registration is required to secure your place. If you register but can’t attend live, you will receive a link to the on‑demand recording once it becomes available.
Speakers
Who should attend?
- Lab technicians
- Lab supervisors
- Lab directors
- Lab scientists
- Medical directors
- Pathologists
- Infectious disease specialists
- Microbiologists
- Primary care physicians
- Physician assistants
- Community workers
- Public health professionals
- Academic researchers
What will this webinar cover?
This session bridges the gap between laboratory science and clinical outcomes, addressing the critical need for diagnostic precision in HIV monitoring.
- Epidemiology and prevention initiatives: Explore current patient demographics, global trends, barriers in prevention and treatment
- HIV Ag/Ab combo testing: Discover the evolution of HIV serology assays for screening, differentiation and diagnostic testing algorithms essential for modern clinical practice.
- Workflow best practices: Learn about evidence-based interpretation strategies to navigate discordant result challenges encountered in routine, high-volume laboratory settings.
- Practical case studies: Gain insights from real-world scenarios around operational and workflow considerations impacting laboratory performance and linkage to patient care.
Key learning objectives:
- Review current HIV epidemiology, screening expectations, and testing algorithm evolution relevant to clinical and laboratory practice.
- Compare advantages and limitations of generation-based HIV Ag/Ab combo assays, antibody differentiation testing, and nucleic acid testing in HIV diagnosis.
- Apply evidence-based interpretation strategies and workflow best practices to real-world HIV diagnostic scenarios encountered in routine laboratory practice.
