Public health authorities in the United States recommend routine HIV screening in health care settings, including hospitals, to identify undiagnosed patients. The authors found that, in practice, implementing large-scale HIV screening programs in hospital-based settings is very difficult and often unsuccessful in reaching testing goals, but success is possible when adequate resources are available and testing is prioritized by hospital and public health leadership
Expanding hospital human immunodeficiency virus testing in the Bronx, New York and Washington, District of Columbia: Results from the HPTN 065 study
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Branson BM, Chavez PR, Hanscom B, Greene E, McKinstry L, Buchacz K, Beauchamp G, Gamble T, Zingman BS, Telzak E, Naab T, Fitzpatrick L, El-Sadr WM, HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 065 study team
