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Expanding HIV Testing: Practical Screening Cases to Meet New CDC Recommendations
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Title Expanding HIV Testing: Practical Screening Cases to Meet New CDC Recommendations
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/8414?src=rss
Description Integrating CDC recommendations for HIV testing into routine screening can identify many HIV-positive patients, affording them treatment earlier in their disease course and minimizing transmission. Medscape HIV/AIDS
Category Articles > Infectious Diseases
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Date Dec 21, 2007
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