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New screening guidelines timely for annual HIV Testing Day
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June 27 marks the annual National HIV Testing Day, this year with updated screening guidelines from the US Preventive Services Task Force.
The guidelines, last updated in 2005, recommend all patients aged 15 to 65 be screened for infection at least once with those at increased risk screened more frequently. Patients out of the age range but at increased risk should also be screened.
The CDC stresses the importance of the for its role in detecting, treating and preventing HIV. It recommends that those at increased risk for HIV be tested annually and those aged 1364 be screened when located in areas where undiagnosed HIV occurrence is more than 0.1%.
“HIV testing is the essential entry point to a continuum of prevention, healthcare and social services that improve the quality of life and the length of survival for persons with HIV,” the CDC said in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.