Special coverage of 41st IDSA conference. Primary care doctors fail to offer tests, survey says. Medical students need additional training.
A new survey shows that most family practitioners often fail to offer HIV testing to their sexually active patients, and many even neglect to offer the test to pregnant patients. But testing and counseling should be a routine part of physicals and physician-patient care, according to the CDC.
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