40% of U.S. population has been tested for HIV

Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 22:49 in Health & Medicine

However, 250,000 are infected and don't know it, according to new data released by the CDC. Efforts to increase screening are underway. Just over 40% of the adult U.S. population has been screened at least once for HIV, but a quarter of a million people are infected and don't know it, government researchers said Thursday.

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