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To the Editor: Recently, Gellert and colleagues expressed strong concern about office-based test systems for HIV, believing that such tests will compromise effective programs of AIDS surveillance and prevention¹. We question their judgment. As the HIV epidemic continues to rage out of control, it is not clear that current prevention strategies are effective. It is imperative that new approaches be tried -- ones that also strive to protect uninfected persons from infection, thereby interrupting the transmission cycle.

Gellert et al. elected to focus on the predictive value of a positive HIV test (office-based), which they estimated to be 50 . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Office-Based Test Systems for HIV Antibody
Gellert G. H., Moore D. F., Weismuller P. C., Greenwood R., Maxwell R. M.
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N Engl J Med 1993; 328:211, Jan 21, 1993. Correspondence

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