HIV/AIDS Testing

Expectant mothers urged to get tested for AIDS

Published in Physician Law Weekly, March 23rd, 2005

Pregnant women should routinely get tested for the AIDS virus, health officials urged February 28, 2005, pointing to statistics showing antiviral drugs have sharply reduced the transmission of the deadly virus from infected women to their newborn.

While testing for syphilis is required by state law, pregnant women don't have to be tested for the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Doctors should offer the test on an 'opt-out' basis, in which the expectant mother is not tested only if she requests not to be, recommended Peter Beilenson, MD, the city's health commissioner.

"When it's been offered opt-out, it's been almost universally accepted," Beilenson...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2005-03-23)

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