tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 8

PHYSICIAN NOTES: CDC Sees HIV as Fertile Ground for Prevention

"Prevention efforts have stalled" on HIV, with 40,000 new infections now occurring annually in the U.S., CDC chief Julie Gerberding, MD, says. She announced a new federal initiative April 17 to "open the door" to HIV diagnostic testing. An estimated 200,000 out of 800,000 HIV-positive Americans are unaware of their status, Gerberding said. Federal agencies will work with individual clinicians "in medical settings and make HIV testing a routine component of medical care," testing anyone who admits to having unsafe sex. CDC will end its requirement that patients participate in what Gerberding called "a...

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