Testing for AIDS, Too Late

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a recommendation for routine AIDS testing for individuals between their teen years to the age of 64.  This recommendation is perceived by The New York Times as

...the best hope to reduce the stubborn persistence of H.I.V. infections in the American population.

This is a patently absurd statement.  If an individual is being tested for the H.I.V. virus, and is found to have the virus, it is too late.  Routine testing only makes known whether you have the H.I.V. virus, or you do not have the virus.  Testing can in no measurable way reduce H.I.V. infections.

Is not the best hope to reduce the persistence of H.I.V. infections in the American population safer sex between individuals?  Prevention beats a pound of cure.

Routine Testing for the AIDS Virus

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