CDC new guidelines recommend HIV testing for all persons age 13 to 64

The CDC recommends to health care providers that HIV testing be added as a routine part of testing and evaluation for anyone 13-64 years of age.

In a statement released on September 22, 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta is urging health care providers to include HIV testing as routine part of health care to their patients age 13-64.

You can go to the CDC site for the text of their statement and guidelines. (Click here.)

Given the fact, supported by evidence from all 50 states, that adolescents are initiating sexual behavior early in their teens, the CDC has set the age range of action to 13.

This is supported by the evidence that there are more HIV positive teens reported in Cuyahoga County than ever before. (See report by linking here.)