New testing for very early HIV diagnosis.
Because persons newly infected with HIV may be especially infectious before the body has created antibodies to partially control the infection, there is a new public-health push to also look for the virus itself in routine HIV testing. North Carolina has used this approach statewide for over a year, and discovered the first indications of a new HIV epidemic among college students, especially African-American men. Results were reported at the recent Retroviruses conference.
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