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Thursday, July 13, 2006
Should Every American Adult Be Tested for HIV?
What do you think of this idea:
The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to release... guidelines this summer that would expand HIV screening to all adults in the United States... If this happens, it means that just about anybody over the age of 13 could be asked by their doctor, "Would you like an HIV test?"... At least 25 percent of Americans infected with HIV are unaware of their status, according to the CDC... Unlike the early days of the virus in the 1980s, HIV testing is today more accurate, and the disease itself can be treated as a chronic disease, meaning people can live a normal life span... "Today, in my mind, it would be almost criminal to not test more widely for HIV. … The reason people are dying today [from HIV/AIDS] is that they are diagnosed late.
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