{"id":187,"date":"2008-12-04T14:57:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T19:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=187"},"modified":"2008-12-04T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T19:57:26","slug":"more-support-for-hiv-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/more-support-for-hiv-screening\/2008\/12\/04\/","title":{"rendered":"More Support for HIV Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday December 1 &#8212; World AIDS Day, if you&#8217;re\u00a0keeping track &#8212; the American College of Physicians <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annals.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/0000605-200901200-00300v1\" target=\"_blank\">released a position paper <\/a>supporting routine HIV screening for adolescents and adults in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(If you don&#8217;t want to read the whole thing, we&#8217;ll have a perfectly-executed summary by the inimitable Abbie Zuger on our <a href=\"http:\/\/aids-clinical-care.jwatch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">AIDS Clinical Care <\/a>site any day now; it&#8217;s been written, but somehow getting material up there is harder than it is here.\u00a0 Go figure. \u00a0UPDATE: \u00a0Now you can read it <a href=\"http:\/\/aids-clinical-care.jwatch.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/2008\/1208\/1?q=featured_ac\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>In essence, these ACP Guidelines are highly concordant with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/rr5514a1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">those issued in 2006 by the CDC<\/a>:\u00a0 One-time testing for adults in health-care settings.\u00a0 Frequency of repeat testing to be determined by risk assessment.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrq.gov\/clinic\/uspstf\/uspsHIVi.htm\" target=\"_blank\">US Preventive Services Task Force <\/a>as a mild voice of dissension about the issue of HIV screening, as it neither endorses nor discourages routine screening.\u00a0 The USPSTF does recommend screening &#8220;at-risk&#8221; populations, a useful strategy but one that still leaves a substantial proportion of HIV diagnoses undetected.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the number of states still requiring written informed consent for HIV testing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nccc.ucsf.edu\/StateLaws\/Index.html\" target=\"_blank\">continues to fall &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday December 1 &#8212; World AIDS Day, if you&#8217;re\u00a0keeping track &#8212; the American College of Physicians released a position paper supporting routine HIV screening for adolescents and adults in the United States.\u00a0 (If you don&#8217;t want to read the whole thing, we&#8217;ll have a perfectly-executed summary by the inimitable Abbie Zuger on our AIDS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,9],"tags":[423,498,736,913],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-hiv","category-infectious-diseases","category-patient-care","category-policy","tag-hiv","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-policy","tag-testing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}