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Panel pushes for Americans ages 15 to 64 to get tested for HIV

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There's a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks. Americans ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test at least once - not just people considered at high risk for the virus, an independent panel that sets screening guidelines proposed Monday. The draft guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are the latest recommendations that aim to make HIV screening simply a routine part of a check-up, something a doctor can order with as little fuss as a cholesterol test or a mammogram. Since 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also has pushed for widespread, routine HIV screening. Yet not nearly enough people have heeded that call: Of the more than 1. 1 million Americans living with HIV, nearly 1 in 5 - almost 240,000 people - don't know it.

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Dr. Jonathan Mermin

Overall Sentiment: -0.0202953

Relevance: 0.327851

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0.0513489	"We are not doing as well in America with HIV testing as we would like," Dr. Jonathan Mermin, CDC's HIV prevention chief, said ...
-0.363022	"It can sometimes be awkward to ask your doctor for an HIV test," Mermin said ...
0.0206859	Mermin calls that "a tragedy. It's a missed opportunity."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 3 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.2909872 Mean: -0.096995733333333 Standard Deviation: 1

Dr. Douglas Owens

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HealthCondition: HIV

Overall Sentiment: -0.0535204

Relevance: 0.845236

FieldTerminology: HIV

Overall Sentiment: 0.15141

Relevance: 0.417901

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Americans ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test at least once - not just people considered at high risk for the virus, an independent panel that sets screening guidelines proposed

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Panel pushes for Americans ages 15 to 64 to get tested for HIV

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• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• health care law
• HIV
• U S
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