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Improvement still needed in HIV testing in high-risk groups

Since 2000, the rates of HIV testing have remained relatively low and constant in the US, with about one third of Americans ever having had an HIV test, and less than a quarter of the people considered at high risk for contracting the virus that causes AIDS report having been tested in the past year.

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