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counseling and written consent. Rose Saxe, an official with the ACLU’S AIDS Project, said removing these safeguards could transform routine HIV testing into “mandatory testing.”
A number of states, including New York, have laws that require written consent and pre- and post-test counseling for HIV testing. CDC officials said they would ask those states to consider revising such laws to allow health care facilities to adopt the CDC recommendations.
In D.C., the Whitman-Walker Clinic, the city’s largest private AIDS treatment facility, has said it supports the CDC’s recommendations. Whitman-Walker officials have embraced a routine HIV testing program started by the D.C. Department of Health earlier this year.
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