More than 1.1 million individuals are infected with HIV in the United States, and until
recently, the proportion of infections that were undiagnosed had remained relatively high …

Over the past 25 years, approximately 1.6 million people in the United States have been
diagnosed with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). 1 For this ''terminal''infectious …

The HIV epidemic is approaching 25 years. Specific numbers remain sobering, for more
than a million people in the United States alone are living with HIV/AIDS. 1, 2 Of these, an …

In the United States, more than 1.1 million individuals are infected with HIV, more than
200,000 remain undiagnosed, and approximately 50,000 new infections occur annually. 1 …

In the current health care environment, emergency departments (EDs) provide care for a
large proportion of our population, many of whom have limited resources and access to …

Testing is the first in a series of important interventions aimed at mitigating the HIV epidemic.
1 Identifying individuals with HIV infection provides a critical opportunity to link them into …

In 2001 and then again in 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
published guidelines recommending universal HIV screening in most outpatient and acute …

HIV screening in the emergency department (ED), including universal screening irrespective
of risk assessments, has shown strong promise in past studies, identifying many new cases …

While great strides have been made in diagnostic and treatment strategies, human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a major public health epidemic. The Centers for …

Study objective Newer combination HIV antigen-antibody tests allow detection of HIV sooner
after infection than previous antibody-only immunoassays because, in addition to HIV-1 and …