title: HIV testing at a community health center before and after implementing universal screening.
abstract: This study analyzed the quality of HIV screening at one of the largest community health centers in Connecticut. The data indicated that implementing universal HIV screening increased the proportion of underrepresented minorities and women tested, reducing the HIV testing disparities that previously existed at this center.
authors.affiliation: Gerald Kayingo is an assistant clinical professor and program director of the PA program at the University of California-Davis in Sacramento, Calif. Robert Douglas Bruce is the medical director of Cornell Scott Hill-Health Center and an associate clinical professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kayingo
authors.forename: Robert Douglas
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Bruce
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003151:Community Health Centers; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D012698:Serologic Tests