Researchers say HIV testing in US remains low

WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - HIV testing rates have remained low in the United States this decade, with only about one-fifth of people at high risk for infection getting a test in any given year, according to a study published on Monday.

The study also found that many more people at high risk of HIV infection -- men who have sex with men, injection drug users and others -- say they plan to get tested than actually do get tested.

"We know that there are about 1.1 million Americans infected with HIV. And we know that about 25 percent of them don't know that they're infected," Brian Pence, an epidemiologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and one of the researchers, said in a telephone interview.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/afric.../idUSN22630688 accessed today.