AAP Backs HIV Tests for Teens (MedPageToday)
Pediatricians should offer routine HIV testing to adolescents at least once before they are 16 to 18 if the local prevalence of the virus is greater than 0.1%, according to a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
If the local community prevalence is lower, pediatricians should offer the test to all sexually active patients as well as to those with other risk factors, such as drug use, according to Patricia J. Emmanuel, MD, of the University of South Florida, and colleagues on the academy's Committee of Pediatric AIDS.
The policy statement, in the November issue of Pediatrics, expands on a 2001 policy that recommended pediatricians offer HIV testing to sexually active adolescents.
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