Voluntary HIV testing as part of routine medical care--Massachusetts, 2002.
In 2003, CDC released Advancing HIV Prevention: New Strategies for a Changing Epidemic. One of the four strategies of this initiative is to expand routine, voluntary human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing. This report describes the results of a state-funded program in Massachusetts that offered HIV counseling, testing, and referral (HIV CTR) to patients entering one of four hospital-associated urgent care centers. Among the 3,068 patients tested, the program identified an HIV seroprevalence of 2.0%. The findings underscore the effectiveness of routine HIV CTR in HIV case identification.
D015492:AIDS Serodiagnosis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D008404:Massachusetts / Q000453:epidemiology; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011635:Public Health Administration; D035141:Voluntary Programs