AIDS experts urge routine HIV testing.

AIDS experts urge routine HIV testing. Two medical organizations, along with researchers at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, have announced they strongly recommend universal and routine testing for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to help curb the AIDS epidemic. The new policy from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American College of Physicians calls for universal testing to occur in the primary-care setting and at all health clinics. The recommendation calls for universal HIV testing for everyone, from pre-teens to adults, unless they choose to opt-out of the tests. A previously adopted policy of opt-out testing for pregnant women in the United States has nearly halted mother-to-child transmission of HIV.