Media Articles January 02, 2009
Hospitals Picked to Offer Patients Free H.I.V. Tests
It didn’t surprise Dr. Joseph U. Becker, chief resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital’s emergency department, when the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that some 1.1 million people nationwide are living with H.I.V. What did surprise Dr. Becker is that the report also said one-quarter of them did not know they had the virus.
So when the hospital’s emergency department became one of three in the state asked to participate in a pilot program to test patients for H.I.V. free of charge beginning Dec. 1, he welcomed the idea.
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