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WASHINGTON — Two years after the federal government recommended that patients in emergency rooms and doctors’ offices be routinely tested for HIV, the advice is generally not being followed, according to a large number of studies presented this week at a conference in Arlington, Va.
Only about 5 percent of patients with evidence of serious illness are being routinely tested for the virus that causes AIDS in hospital emergency rooms, said Veronica Miller, director of the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, an independent public-private partnership based at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
