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NY Times Editorial Supports AIDS Testing

An editorial in The New York Times has come out in favor of the CDC's call for widespread AIDS testing.

Exerpt:

Federal health officials took the right step last week when they recommended that all teenagers and all adults up to the age of 64 be tested for H.I.V. infection when they receive routine medical care. This welcome effort to remove barriers in the way of widespread testing offers the best hope to reduce the stubborn persistence of H.I.V. infections in the American population.

Long after the AIDS epidemic burst onto the American and international scenes, it is a public health scandal that some 40,000 Americans are still newly infected each year; that a quarter of those with the disease, or some 250,000 Americans, don’t even know they are infected; and that more than 40 percent of those who find out they are infected are tested only because they are already seriously ill.

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posted by nattietodd @ 8:20 AM