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...positive individuals in the United States, approximately 280,000 of them are unaware they are infected, according to Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates...
...Current CDC guidelines issued in 2001 recommend testing individuals from populations that have a relatively high risk of HIV, defined as a prevalence of at least 1 percent...
...think what we hope is that the CDC reopens the discussion of who they should be screening,” said Sanders...
...chains of contagion could be snapped. "If you could get person A or B to change his or her behavior--through abstinence, using a condom, or getting treated for an STD--then you could prevent transmission from B to C and down the network," says Kathleen Ethier, of the CDC's Division of STD Prevention. It's much harder to intervene in the adult core-transmitter model. So, scary as that map may look to parents, Ethier says, understanding how it works "is very encouraging...
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