Testing

Study Probes AIDS Counseling

Published in AIDS Weekly, March 20th, 1995

Two in three Americans voluntarily tested for HIV go to private doctors, who are much less likely to provide the counseling offered at public clinics, a federal study found.

The report released March 9, 1995, by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was based on a 1993 survey and produced results almost identical to a similar study conducted in 1990.

In the new survey, the CDC said 66.7 percent of those who received the test for HIV antibodies got it from a private doctor, hospital or outpatient clinic. Almost all the rest went to a publicly funded clinic.

The CDC said about six in 10 of those tested at public...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1995-03-20)

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