ALTHOUGH IN MOST OF THE COUNTRIES HIV Laboratory Testing IS BASED ON A CERTAIN DEFINED POLICY AND STANDARD, NOT ALL OF THEM HAVE LEGAL AND REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS. FORTUNATELY, BLOOD DONOR SCREENING FOR HIV, HEPATITIS AND OTHER BLOOD BORN AGENTS, SINCE YEARS, HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED AS THE CRITICAL FOCUS POINT OF PERTAINING INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL LAWS, REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS. LEGAL AND REGULATORY REQUIREMENT FOR HIV DIAGNOSTIC Testing COULD INCLUDE PRETEST, Testing AND POST-Testing REQUIREMENTS.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY TECHNOLOGIES ARE NOW ROUTINELY USED IN EVERY PATHOLOGY DISCIPLINE, AND ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN NATIONAL DIAGNOSTIC RECOMMENDATIONS IN SEVERAL COUNTIES FOR MANY YEARS. THIS EXPLOSION HAS BEEN DRIVEN BY THE NEED FOR ACCURATE AND FASTER DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, FUELED BY THE INCEPTION OF THE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION (PCR) IN 1985. IN LAST THREE DECADES, PCR AND SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGIES HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED OUR UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE MOLECULAR AND GENETIC CAUSES OF SEVERAL HUMAN DISEASES AND MECHANISMS OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT...

FOR MANY YEARS, ALL OR THE MAJORITY OF Laboratory Testing WAS PERFORMED IN A MEDICAL Laboratory. THIS WAS NECESSARY DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY OF THE Testing. WITH COMPUTER CHIP TECHNOLOGY, Testing HAS EMERGED FROM THE Laboratory TO THE PATIENT‘S BEDSIDE, THE PHARMACY, THE PHYSICIAN‘S OFFICE, THE PATIENT‘S HOME AND OTHER NON-Laboratory SITES. THIS Testing IS CALLED POINT-OF-CARE Testing AND IS DEFINED AS Testing AT THE POINT WHERE PATIENT CARE IS GIVEN, WHEREVER THAT IS LOCATED. WITH THIS MOVE OUTSIDE THE Laboratory WALLS SOME PROBLEMS OCCUR THAT WERE NOT PROBLEMS WITHIN THE Laboratory...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: POCT REFERS TO ANY Testing PERFORMED OUTSIDE OF THE CLINICAL Laboratory, TYPICALLY, BY CLINICAL PERSONNEL WHOSE PRIMARY TRAINING IS NOT IN THE CLINICAL Laboratory SCIENCES OR BY PATIENTS (SELF-Testing). BEING THIS EQUIPMENT IN AMBULANCE, SMALL HEALTH CENTER, GP OFFICE FOR QUICK DIAGNOSIS, AND IN …