Many ER patients test positive for HIV while in most infectious stage
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Human Immunodeficiency Virus screening for emergency patients at an institution with a large number of ethnic minority, underinsured and uninsured people reveals few are HIV positive, but of those who are, nearly one-quarter are in the acute phase and more than one-quarter have infections that have already advanced to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.