Melbourne, Australia (openPR) 30 November 2006

The National Serology Reference Laboratory

, Australia (NRL) assures safe, accurate HIV tests for evaluation of test systems and the results immediately available on the Internet, the further conduct of Australia in the fight against the HIV epidemic. Innovation Australia provides the opportunity to expand the HIV testing of the best quality in Australia and internationally.

The NRL is using new Internet-based systems connecting Australian laboratories with those internationally. There is information gathering by the resulting network that ensures HIV testing is a better quality and standards that were not previously possible. The system ensures that defects in HIV testing can be immediately reviewed to ensure that the results are correct. If test results are not correct, it may be the spread of HIV. Money for interventions related to HIV screening and blood transfusions is useless if the quality of the HIV test is not empty.

Australian response to the HIV epidemic since it was recognized in the 1980s, innovative and outstanding. An Australian initiative was to ensure the NRL to the fact that HIV tests used for diagnosis, screening of donated blood and monitoring of diseases have been and continue to be of the highest quality possible. Laboratories in Australia and overseas, play a crucial role in the ongoing fight against HIV and AIDS, which contributed both to manage the epidemic and safe blood supply. Support for these laboratories by the NRL, to maintain and improve the accuracy of the tests is also essential. Since 1985, the NRL has to ensure that Australians’ confidence in the accuracy of HIV testing may have. The NRL has recently launched a unique technology, information to combat the spread of HIV in Australia and overseas by constantly improving the quality of HIV testing through prompt feedback via the Internet developed.

World AIDS Day should be aware of Australians, that the NRL contribute to the management of the epidemic in countries where established similar initiatives, such as in Australia have not been taken to. The Australian NRL ensures quality of HIV testing in laboratories worldwide. The quality of the tests in many laboratories in Southeast Asia and beyond requires significant improvement. The NRL provides assistance to laboratories as a partner in AusAID, and the only World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for HIV / AIDS in Australia. Laboratories regularly receive samples of the quality of the NRL and NRL scientists help laboratories with testing problems as soon as they are identified to address.

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