Routine HIV Screening Recommended for Most Americans
Boston, MA -- Routine HIV screening should be extended to most Americans, according to the findings of two research teams described in the February 10, 2005 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at Yale, Harvard and the Massachusetts General Hospital found that such screening could increase survival, prevent transmission of the disease and be undertaken at reasonable cost relative to the benefit for society. Another team from the VA, Duke and Stanford Universities employed different data and methods and reached similar conclusions. An editorial in the same issue of NEJM calls explicitly for a change in US screening policies which currently recommend testing only in high risk groups.
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