Rates of recommended baseline testing for patients initiating HIV care are ‘suboptimal’

The rates at which patients initiating HIV care receive recommended tests are ‘suboptimal,’ but they were higher among those who initiated care at a Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program-funded facility, researchers found.
“In 2020, the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America updated its primary care guidance for people with HIV. The recommendations included baseline laboratory testing as part of the initial evaluation of people with HIV,” John Weiser, MD, MPH, an epidemiologist in the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, told Healio. “Examples

The rates at which patients initiating HIV care receive recommended tests are ‘suboptimal,’ but they were higher among those who initiated care at a Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program-funded facility, researchers found.
“In 2020, the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America updated its primary care guidance for people with HIV. The recommendations included baseline laboratory testing as part of the initial evaluation of people with HIV,” John Weiser, MD, MPH, an epidemiologist in the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, told Healio. “Examples