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Calypte Biomedical Corporation’s rapid tests for HIV: Calypte Aware™ HIV-1/2 BSP (blood) and Aware™ HIV-1/2 OMT (oral fluid) has been issued a Kenyan National Public Health Laboratory Services (NPHLS) notification of registration and approval.

These HIV test kits are now certified for testing and sale at the Republic of Kenya where (at the end of 2003) approximately 1.2 million adults and children are HIV infected not to mention the 650,000 AIDS Orphans, according to the UNAIDS 2004 report on the global AIDS epidemic.

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