CDC's recommendations urge providers to include HIV testing as a routine part of their patients’ healthcare. Routine HIV testing ensures more people learn whether they are infected with HIV, allowing them to benefit from earlier access to treatment, and reduce the risk of infecting their partners.

Questions and Answers
Fact Sheets
Slide Sets
Podcasts
Journal Articles
Reports
Recommendations and Guidelines
Implementation Guidance
Dear Colleague Letter
Partner Training and Education
Links

Questions and Answers

• Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents and Pregnant Women in Healthcare Settings (For Professionals)

• Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Healthcare Settings (For General Public)

Fact Sheets

• CDC HIV/AIDS Science Facts: CDC Releases Revised HIV Testing Recommendations in Healthcare Settings

Slide Sets

• Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing in Healthcare Settings in the U.S.
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Podcasts

• Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health-Care Settings
  The objectives of these recommendations are to increase HIV screening of patients, including pregnant women, in health-care settings; foster earlier detection of HIV infection; identify and counsel persons with unrecognized HIV infection and link them to clinical and prevention services; and further reduce perinatal transmission of HIV in the United States.
  • A Cup of Health with CDC (5 MB, 4:55 Min.)
  • A Minute of Health with CDC (1 MB, 1:23 Min.)

Journal Articles

• Changing the Paradigm for HIV Testing—The End of Exceptionalism
  Bayer R, Fairchild AL. Changing the Paradigm for HIV Testing—The End of Exceptionalism [editorial]. New England Journal of Medicine 2006;355(7):647–649.
• HIV Counseling and Testing: Less Targeting, More Testing
  Koo DJ, Begier EM, Henn MH, Sepkowitz, KA, Kellerman SE. HIV Counseling and Testing: Less Targeting, More Testing [editorial]. American Journal of Public Health 2006;96:962–964. Reprinted with permission from the American Public Health Association
• Applying Public Health Principles to the HIV
  Epidemic
  Frieden TR, Das-Douglas M, Kellerman SE, Henning KJ. Applying Public Health Principles to the HIV Epidemic. New England Journal of Medicine 2005;352(22):2397–2402.
• HIV Testing Should No Longer Be Accorded Any Special Status
  Manavi K, Welsby PD. HIV testing should no longer be accorded any special status [editorial]. British Medical Journal 2005;330:492–493.
• Routine Screening for HIV Infection—Timely and Cost-Effective
  Bozzette SA. Routine Screening for HIV Infection—Timely and Cost-Effective [editorial]. New England Journal of Medicine 2005;352(6):620–621.
• Expanded Screening for HIV in the United States—An Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness 
  Paltiel AD, Weinstein MC, Kimmel AD, et al. Expanded Screening for HIV in the United States—An Analysis of Cost-Effectiveness. New England Journal of Medicine 2005;352(6):586–589.
• Cost-Effectiveness of Screening for HIV in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy 
  Sanders GD, Bayoumi AM, Sundaram V, et al. Cost-Effectiveness of Screening for HIV in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy. New England Journal of Medicine 2005;352(6):570–585.
• It Is Time to Implement Routine, Not Risk-Based, HIV Testing
  Beckwith CG, Flanigan TP, del Rio C, et al. It Is Time to Implement Routine, Not Risk-Based, HIV Testing [editorial]. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2005;40:1037–1040.
• Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines for HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral: Critical Role of and a Call to Action for Emergency Physicians
  Rothman RE. Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines for HIV Counseling, Testing, and Referral: Critical Role of and a Call to Action for Emergency Physicians. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2004;44:31–42.
  Reprinted with permission from The American College of Emergency Physicians.
• Reducing Obstetrician Barriers to Offering HIV
  Testing 
  US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General. Reducing Obstetrician Barriers to Offering HIV Testing. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services; April 2002. Publication OEI-05-01-00260.
• Ethical Issues in Early Detection of HIV Infection To Reduce Vertical Transmission
  Lo B, Wolf L, Sengupta S. Ethical Issues in Early Detection of HIV Infection To Reduce Vertical Transmission. JAIDS 2000;25(suppl 2):136S–143S.

Reports

• MMWR: Rapid HIV Testing in Emergency Departments—Three U.S. Sites, January 2005–March 2006
• Voluntary HIV Testing as Part of Routine Medical Care
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Recommendations and Guidelines

• NEW: CPT: Coding guidelines for routine HIV testing in health care settings
• Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health-Care Settings
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Implementation Guidance

• HIV Testing in Emergency Departments (Health Research and Education Trust)

Dear Colleague Letter

• Dear Colleague Letter from Drs. Gerberding and Fenton on the Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing in Healthcare Settings

Partner Training and Education

• Strategic Planning Workshops for Implementation of HIV Screening in Acute Care Settings
  CDC promotes routine opt-out HIV testing in all health care settings (including emergency departments) for adults and adolescents aged 13-64 years and rapid HIV testing at the time of labor for women of unknown HIV status. In order to assist health care settings with implementing these new standards of care, CDC has convened two series of regional workshops aimed at implementing rapid HIV testing in two critical settings: labor and delivery units and emergency departments. These workshops will enhance the capacity of hospitals and healthcare providers to increase identification of HIV-infected persons early in their disease progression and to further decrease perinatal HIV transmission in the U.S.
• Transcript of the Partner Briefing held on September 21, 2006

Links

• The National HIV/AIDS Clinicians’ Consultation Center 
• Updated Compendium on State HIV Testing Laws