HIV/AIDS Screening

Increased HIV testing in underutilized venues may increase HIV status awareness

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 5th, 2004

Increased HIV testing in underutilized venues may increase the awareness of HIV status.

According to recent research from the United States, "In an effort to help fight the HIV epidemic, we offered standard HIV testing to high-risk and symptomatic patients attending an urban emergency department (ED) located in a high-prevalence area. We assessed rates of consent, HIV infection, and linkage into care by demographic and risk characteristics."

N.R. Glick and coauthors reported, "Consent rates were consistently greater than 50% across the various demographics and risk groups. The HIV prevalence rate was 3% and ranged from 0% to 50% across groups. Of...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2004-07-05)

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