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Today's Globe: HIV testing
"The most disheartening fact about the revised CDC data on annual new [HIV] infections is not their precise number, but that they are not declining," a Globe editorial says. "More routine testing could bring them down by alerting those who test positive that they are infectious. The federal government needs to be part of this effort."
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Alerting HIV positive individuals (and their partners) that they are infectious is one thing. Convincing them (and their partners) to use condoms or other forms of protection is another.