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PRENATAL HIV SCREENING.
Despite existing AMA policy supporting routine HIV screening in pregnant women, a resolution calling for the AMA to push for federal legislation mandating such screening was struck down following overwhelming oppositional testimony. Rather than supporting a substitute ...
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- ACOG Pushes for Routine Prenatal HIV Screening.
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News BOSCHERT, SHERRY July 1, 2000 700+ words
...make it easier for physicians to fold HIV screening into the standard battery of tests for...to loosen state requirements around prenatal HIV testing. Also in the packet: educational...kept many physicians from incorporating prenatal HIV testing into their practices. The new...
- ACOG Pushes Routine Prenatal HIV Testing.(American College of Obstetricians and...
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News BOSCHERT, SHERRY July 1, 2000 700+ words
...making it easier for physicians to fold HIV screening into the standard battery of tests for...to loosen state requirements around prenatal HIV testing. A new ACOG committee opinion...kept many physicians from providing prenatal HIV testing. The new ACOG approach...
- U. Pittsburgh: EDITORIAL: U.S. panel recommends prenatal HIV testing.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire July 8, 2005 700+ words
...medical experts strongly recommended prenatal HIV testing. Preceding this recommendation...companies cover prenatal care, the cost of prenatal HIV testing varies significantly, and most...outlined. Thus, if it is recommended that prenatal HIV testing is necessary to save lives...
- Testing presented as routine: 'opt-out' strategy improves prenatal HIV testing...
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News September 15, 2004 700+ words
...in this area of study who have shown prenatal HIV testing acceptance rates of at least...associates compared the acceptance rates of prenatal HIV testing in a clinic setting that uses...race was a predictor of acceptance of prenatal HIV testing. Hispanic women were five times...
- Routine prenatal HIV testing acceptable to women in South Africa.
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly February 26, 2004 700+ words
...Women in South Africa have responded well to routine prenatal HIV testing and counseling. According to recent research from...was HIV-positive." These findings show that "routine prenatal HIV testing and interventions to reduce perinatal HIV transmission...
- Prenatal HIV Services Conundrum.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Family Planning Perspectives Hollander, Dore November 1, 2000 700+ words
...providers are to "ensure that as few infants as possible are infected with HIV." [1.] Ethier KA et al. Organizational predictors of prenatal HIV counseling and testing, American Journal of Public Health, 2000, 90(9):1448-1451.
- Self-report also not reliable: records of prenatal HIV testing often...
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News Brunk, Doug September 15, 2004 700+ words
...their results. I personally go over the results with every patient and make sure they know the results." So, Who Got Prenatal HIV Testing? According to: Patient interviews 73% Laboratory databases 66% Labor and delivery charts 47% Note: Table made...
- Prenatal HIV testing. (AMA Briefs).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News Kirn, Timothy F. January 15, 2002 700+ words
Mandatory testing of pregnant women for HIV would not be good policy, but physicians should continue to offer HIV testing to all pregnant women, according to a report adopted by the House. Mandatory testing could discourage some women from seeking prenatal care, the report said. Moreover, the
- Prenatal HIV Counseling Is Common.(Statistical Data Included)
- Magazine article from: Family Planning Perspectives Hollander, Dore July 1, 1999 700+ words
Since 1995, when the Public Health Service recommended that providers of prenatal care counsel all of their patients about HIV and encourage them to be tested for the virus, substantial proportions of pregnant women have received such counseling.[1] Among women in 13 states who were surveyed
- Prenatal HIV tests available free next year.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire December 1, 2004 700+ words
(From China Post) The HIV causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. "Such tests are not compulsory," Kuo said. AIDS is a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, certain cancers, and neurological disorders transmitted chiefly through
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