The Centers for Disease Control have revised recommendations for HIV screening in healthcare settings. According to a telephone briefing on Thursday:

Recommendations are designed to make voluntary HIV screening a routine part of medical care for all patients ages 13 to 64. With these Recommendations, CDC aims to simplify the HIV testing process in health-care settings and increase early HIV diagnosis among the more than 250,000 HIV-positive persons in the U.S. who remain unaware of their infection. The Recommendations also include new measures to improve diagnosis among pregnant women in order to further reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission.

Check back early next week for analysis of the revisions by Diana Bruce of AIDS Alliance for Children, Youth & Families.

You can watch a video about the testing from MSNBC as well.