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Few primary care practitioners offer HIV tests to Hispanic patients in Los Angeles
03-01-2007 · EurekAlert!Even as the AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles County has shifted largely to Hispanics, primary-care practitioners serving this segment of the population often fail to offer either HIV testing or safer sex advice to their patients, according to a new UCLA AIDS Institute study
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