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Nov 21, 2008 1:25 pm US/Eastern

Many People Disregard Advice to Get HIV Tests

The CDC Recommended Two Years Ago To Test Those Aged 13 To 64 In Emergency Room Settings; Only About 3% Are Tested For HIV

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MIAMI (CBS4) ― Two years after the federal government recommended that patients in emergency rooms and doctors' offices be routinely tested for HIV, the advice is generally not being followed, according to a large number of studies presented this week at a conference in Washington.

About 100 of 5,000 emergency rooms in the U.S. have implemented guidelines for testing from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Richard Rothman, a Johns Hopkins University researcher, who attended the conference.

About 1.1 million people in the U.S. are infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and one in five do not know it, according to the CDC.

Two years ago, the CDC recommended testing for everyone aged 13 to 64. Still, only about 2.3 percent of emergency room patients are tested for HIV, she added.







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