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November 2009, Vol 99, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1924-1925
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.173831

LETTERS

WING RESPONDS

Coady Wing, MA, BPAPM

Coady Wing is a PhD student at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and with the Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, Syracuse.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Coady Wing, MA, BPAPM, Center for Policy Research, 426 Eggers Hall, Syracuse, NY 13244-1020 (e-mail: cwing@maxwell.syr.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking on the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

The letter by Zetola et al. revolves around 3 studies concerned with the way that HIV testing consent procedures affect HIV testing rates. All 3 studies conclude that written informed consent requirements lead to lower HIV testing rates.

The 3 studies analyzed different populations. In my article, I compared estimates of population HIV testing rates in New York and a set of other states before and after New York streamlined its HIV testing consent procedures.1 The data were collected from representative samples of state populations, and my main finding was that streamlined consent increased testing rates by about 31%.

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