Testing for HIV just got a whole lot easier.
A team led by Samuel K. Sia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, has devised a smartphone accessory that can test for HIV and syphilis in 15 minutes. The dongle plugs into the phone’s headphone jack and uses an app to produce the test results.
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Planned Parenthood told The Huffington Post that 1.1 million people are living with HIV in the United States, and nearly a sixth don’t even know they’re infected.