June 23, 2006 -- CDC Urges HIV Testing

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated today that a million people in the United State have HIV infection and one-fourth of them don’t know they have it. Urging everyone to be tested, the CDC pointed out that more treatment options are available when HIV is detected at an early stage and knowing HIV status also “has the potential to reduce transmission.” The CDC set June 27 as National HIV Testing Day and said the locations of HIV test sites by postal code are available at http://www.hivtest.org/index.htm. To come later this year is a revised version of CDC’s "Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health-Care Settings."