ACP Releases Guidance Statement on Screening for HIV

摘要

The ACP also recognizes the importance of screening pregnant women and high-risk persons, including men who have sex with men; persons who have unprotected sex with multiple partners; previous or current injection drug users; persons who exchange sex for money or drugs (or who have sex with persons who do); persons who have sex with persons who have HIV infection, are bisexual, or use injection drugs; persons who are being treated for sexually transmitted diseases; and persons who had a blood transfusion between 1978 and 1985. Because the prevalence in most populations is not typically known, one approach would be to begin routine screening, and if a large number of persons are tested and no cases of undiagnosed HIV infection are discovered, the need for screening should be reevaluated.