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Rebecca Voelker

JAMA. 2009;301(4):366.

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Experts in HIV/AIDS care have called upon physicians and other health professionals in the United States to follow federal recommendations issued more than 2 years ago that call for routine HIV testing of all patients aged 13 to 64 years.

Experts are calling on US physicians and other health professionals to follow federal recommendations that advise routine HIV testing for all patients 13 to 64 years. (Photo credit: Reed Saxon/AP Images)

Since the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the recommendations in 2006, some headway has been made in increasing the number of patients tested routinely. Even so, experts meeting at a national summit in Alexandria, Va, in late November said routine HIV testing has not been widely implemented.

"We still are not anywhere near [routine HIV testing] being the national norm," said Veronica Miller, PhD, executive director of the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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