Making HIV Testing Routine
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In 1996, approximately one quarter of the AIDS prevention budget of the CDC was allocated to HIV testing, predominantly for low-risk populations.1It was their single biggest HIV prevention expenditure. Dr Eric Goosby, then director of the HIV/AIDS Policy Office, argued that this “was not efficient nor effective in picking up HIV-positive people."1 Some dozen years later, the CDC is promulgating an even more wide-ranging program: opt-out testing, which does not require risk assessment or counseling, for all health care encounters involving persons aged 13 to 64 years.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017