Lowering the barriers to mainstream HIV testing
Saturday, December 6, 2008 - 21:35
in Health & Medicine
Doctors are being urged to routinely test people in a wide age range for the virus. On World AIDS day last week, the American College of Physicians announced new practice guidelines that call for doctors to encourage all of their patients to be tested for HIV. They join other doctor groups in endorsing a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation that everyone ages 13 to 64 be screened for HIV infection.