Proportion Of Opioid Treatment Programs Offering On-site Testing For Hiv And Stis Declines

However, with the 2006 national recommendations for routine opt-out HIV testing, we hypothesized that the percentage of programs offering on-site testing for HIV, STIs, and HCV would increase,” the authors write. Marcus A. Bachhuber, M.D., and Chinazo O. Cunningham, M.D., M.S., of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, analyzed data from a survey sent to directors of drug treatment facilities and tabulated the percentage of opioid treatment programs offering on-site HIV, STI, and HCV testing from 2000 to 2011. The number of U.S. You will find the original content at this website http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-12-proportion-opioid-treatment-on-site-hiv.html

Source: aids-write.org - December 26, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: aidswrite Tags: current news Source Type: blogs