On March 12, Dr. Roberta Laguerre will present grand rounds at Crozer Chester Medical Center to the Department of Emergency Medicine on the topic of rapid testing for HIV in the emergency department. In her discussion, she will emphasize the CDC recommendations for HIV testing in healthcare settings and provide proven strategies for implementation in this settings. The experience in the St. Chris clinic is that many of our newly diagnosed patients have had multiple encounters with health care providers prior to being diagnosed with HIV. Many of them had these encounters while being symptomatic with acute HIV infection, increasing their unknowing risk of transmission of HIV to others.
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