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November 2009, Vol 99, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1924
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.173591

LETTERS

SIMPLIFYING CONSENT INCREASES HIV TESTING AND NEW CASE DETECTION: THE SAN FRANCISCO EXPERIENCE

Nicola M. Zetola, MD, MPH, Jeffrey D. Klausner, MD, MPH and Mitchell H. Katz, MD, MPH

Nicola M. Zetola is with Botswana–University of Pennsylvania Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana. Jeffrey D. Klausner and Mitchell H. Katz are with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, CA.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Nicola M. Zetola, Botswana-University of Pennsylvania Partnership, 214 Independence Avenue, Gaborone, Botswana (e-mail: nzetola@gmail.com). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking on the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

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We read with interest the impact of New York State's streamlined HIV testing consent procedures on HIV testing rates, and we were pleased to see that the results were consistent with our experience in San Francisco.1 However, we would like to correct an inaccuracy. Wing argued that the lack of a control group in our analysis decreased the strength of our conclusions. We had published a one-year follow up of our initial report in which we included both internal and external control groups, explored how the policy change affected different subpopulations, and explored whether the increase in HIV testing rates . . . [Full Text]






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