Private Insurers, ER, Federal And State Agencies Fail To Routinely Test For HIV Despite National Guidelines

While the U.S. AIDS epidemic simmers largely unnoticed by most Americans, a failure to widely implement routine HIV testing continues to fuel its spread, HIV researchers and experts said. Almost 60,000 Americans were infected with HIV last year, and, nationwide, 50-to-70 percent of new sexually transmitted infections are spread by people who do not know they are infected. Guidelines issued two years ago by the U.S.

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on November 25th, 2008