First Approved In-Home HIV Test: OraSure's - Expectations have been falling as the newly launched product just didn't take off as quickly as hoped

First Approved In-Home HIV Test: OraSure's Fall From Grace Offers Opportunity

By Jake King

As investors packed up in search of more exciting prospects, shares of OraSure Technologies (OSUR) have been slashed in half since their highs in mid-2012, in fact, setting a new 52-week low this month. OraSure received approval for the first in-home HIV diagnostic last June (called OraQuick In-Home HIV), a product that Magic Johnson called a game-changer

Magic Johnson Partners With OraSure on HIV Awareness Campaign

(The Root) -- "No, I'm not on any magical drugs. I've been saying that for 21 years," Magic Johnson told a small crowd of journalists and HIV- and AIDS-prevention workers over lunch at New York City's Gramercy Park Hotel on Wednesday.

The NBA champion and star of the Los Angeles Lakers, after receiving the life-changing news that he was HIV-positive, announced his status to a gaggle of television cameras in 1991. Since then he has worked to change the way the world perceives people who carry the virus.

OraSure CEO Douglas Michels on the company’s partnership with Magic Johnson and its new rapid HIV test that is now available for in-home use. 

OraSure Technologies Inc. (OSUR) Stock: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=OSUR

Ask for the Kit insert before your next HIV and AIDS test.

READ: In Home HIV Tests Now Available to Mislead http://bit.ly/Q8olNQ

But initially, Johnson had to seek someone to guide him through the process of dealing with his disease, both emotionally and physically. Now he is an international ambassador for HIV and AIDS prevention, the self-proclaimed "face of this disease," and he's endorsing the at-home HIV test called OraQuick.

Produced by the pharmaceutical company OraSure, the test is the first FDA-approved rapid HIV test, which produces results in 20 minutes. It retails at pharmacies like CVS or Duane Reade, as well as online for about $39. OraQuick, which has been used by health care providers for just over a decade, uses a mouth swab to detect antibodies to HIV-1 and HIV-2 in oral fluid. And while this seems to be great news for people who would rather learn their status in their own bathroom, according to the Food and Drug Administration, the test does come with a caveat.

YAY! opening 10 Magic Johnson Clinics in the next 3 months

 "amazing, talented crowd that in 2012 AIDS Healthcare Foundation will grow way 
beyond serving our 24 countries....I am opening 10 Magic Johnson  Clinics in the next 3 months here in the US. Thanks to another wonderful acquisition, we will be a billion dollar annual non profit 
next year....and 96 cents of every dollar goes back to direct care and 
advocacy for people living with HIV and AIDS! Just sayin'!!"

dana miller


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Magic Johnson-sponsored ‘Free HIV testing’ van: Ask for a package insert? 

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Magic Johnson-sponsored ‘Free HIV testing’ van: Ask for a package insert?

by Liam Scheff

Are you a slave? Does the government have the right to tell you who you can mate with? Do they own your body? The bodies of your children?

Are you a slave?

And, what are you shopping for today?

I approached the Magic Johnson-sponsored ‘Free HIV testing’ van, in the Fort Lauderdale mall parking lot, and asked the HIV testing dude if I could see a package insert for the magical test.  This is the technical instruction and legal disclaimer; the limitations of the medical device – the antibody test.

The HIV testing dude gave me a bit of paper – a PR sheet. I handed it back, and asked again for the test insert. He looked blankly, and handed me the same sheet. He did this twice, and tried a third time. I said, “Don’t give me that paper again – I’m asking for a package insert.”

He eventually gave up, and asked the foreman to come talk to me. A 50-something gay dude came out, and gave me a booklet – the package insert. I opened it, and found the language, as it always appears -

*No, we fooled you, suckers  – this is not really a test for hiv…*

• “The Clearview Complete HIV assay is intended for use as a point-of-care test to aids in the diagnosis of infection… This test is suitable for use in multi-test algorithms designed for the statistical validation of rapid HIV test results.”

They Found A Cure For AIDS - South Park

Scientists discover the cure for AIDS is $180,000.

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OMSJ exposes HIV experts as incompetent in several prominent criminal trials

OMSJ Victories Raise HUMANITARIAN Complaints

Despite 25 years of criminal prosecutions against hundreds of factually-innocent men and women, US and UN officials – along with pharmaceutically-funded gay activists – are suddenly calling for the end of all HIV-related criminal prosecutions.  Their demands coincidentally began months after OMSJ began to expose HIV experts as incompetent in several prominent criminal trials.   This report explains why.

TALL TALES

In his book Night, Elie Wiesel introduces the world to Moshe the Beadle, a clown-like waif who tells this unbelievable story:
“The train full of deportees had crossed the Hungarian frontier and on the Polish territory had been taken in charge by the Gestapo. There it had stopped. The Jews had to get out and climb into lorries. The lorries drove toward a forest. The Jews were made to get out. They were made to dig huge graves.  And when they had finished their work, the Gestapo began theirs.  Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present his neck. Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets.  This was in the forest of Galicia, near Kolomaye. How had Moshe the Beadle escaped? Miraculously.  He was wounded in the leg andtaken for dead.”

Magic Johnson: 20 Years of Living With HIV - Newsweek

...his doctors battled the killer that had infected him. Dr. David Ho had begun experimenting with a promising new weapon: a cocktail of antiretroviral medications that seemed to keep HIV in check and prevent patients from developing full-blown AIDS. 

Magic Johnson’s H.I.V. Disclosure http://bit.ly/TmyXJE

And so, in 1994—about a year and a half before the new drug regimen was introduced to the general public—Ho put Johnson on it. “Since we pioneered that therapy, we were able to include Mr. Johnson early, and it made a major difference in his health and overall being,” says Ho from his offices at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York. “In the beginning there were many pills he had to take several times a day. That’s changed a great deal now, so he doesn’t take but a few, and with fewer side effects.” Johnson’s drug regimen includes the pharmaceuticals Trizivir and Kaletra...

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