HIV screening should be a routine part of prenatal care for all women.
Talk with your health care team about HIV screening if any of these apply to you:
And these recommendations were really geared towards routinizing HIV screening among individuals age 13 to 64 years.
Prevention strategies that incorporate universal HIV screening have been highly effective.
HIV screening without such linkage confers little or no benefit to the patient.
HIV screening should be discussed with all adolescents and encouraged for those who are sexually active.
HIV screening should not be contingent on an assessment of patients' behavioral risks.
These revised recommendations are designed to increase HIV screening in health-care settings.
Besides, we already know that HIV screening works.
New state rules allow private laboratories to do HIV screening.