HIV testing during early infection may reduce new cases in high-risk communities
Thursday, May 12, 2016 - 08:41
in Health & Medicine
Detecting HIV earlier, through screening programs that can identify the virus shortly after infection, may lead to lower rates of HIV transmission in local epidemics, suggest findings from a new study. After an acute infection screening program was implemented in San Diego, there were fewer new HIV diagnoses than would have been expected without such testing.