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When the Group of Eight (G8) major industrial countries (France, the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, and Russia) made a commitment in July 2005 to work toward universal access by 2010 to the prevention and treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and AIDS, the move brought to light an HIV-testing emergency: knowledge of serologic status is required for the appropriate targeting of services and interventions. The World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS recently published revised guidelines for HIV testing,¹ but field experience in Africa indicates that testing must be greatly expanded. It . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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The opinions and statements in this Perspective are those of the authors and do not represent the official policy, endorsement, or views of the CDC, the U.S. Public Health Service, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. De Cock is the director of CDC–Kenya; Dr. Bunnell is the associate director for science at CDC–Uganda; and Dr. Mermin is the director of CDC–Uganda. The other participants in the Kenya–Uganda HIV Testing Group were Elizabeth Marum, Ph.D., Barbara Marston, M.D., Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, M.B., Ch.B., M.Med., and Laurence Marum, M.D., M.P.H., in Kenya, and Donna Kabatesi, M.B., Ch.B., M.P.H., in Uganda.

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