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BALTIMORE - Federal guidelines calling for the routine testing of all Americans ages 13 to 64 for the AIDS virus might not be the best way to identify people who are infected but don't know it, a Johns Hopkins scientist said in an article published Tuesday.
Dr. David R. Holtgrave, an epidemiologist with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, argues that a better way would be "targeted" testing of high-risk patients and populations. That could turn up three times as many infections at the same cost, he estimated.See the full content of this document
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Scientist Casts Doubt On Universal Hiv Testing
Holtgrave, writing in an online medical journal, estimated that the health-care system would spend $864 million in one year to di...
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