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VIDEO: INTRO TO IMPLEMENTING ROUTINE HIV TESTING IN TEXAS COURSE

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A brief overview of the DSHS online course covering the best ways to implement routine HIV testing.

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Routine HIV screening is a key recommended action in the national goal of making infection rare.

National HIV/AIDS Strategy

We can unite to end HIV by ensuring that everyone knows their HIV status. Those who know they have HIV make choices to protect themselves and others.

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DO YOU KNOW HOW HIV AFFECTS YOUR COMMUNITY?

By the end of 2018, there were 94,106 Texans known to be living with a diagnosis of HIV.

This is an increase of 25 percent in the past five years. Growth is primarily due to advances in the effectiveness of HIV treatment and increases in the number and proportion of persons living with HIV (PLWH) who are receiving effective treatment. New diagnoses made each year has been relatively stable over the past decade, with 4,520 new diagnoses in 2018.

To learn more, access our interactive map of Texas which provides county-level HIV data and allows you to visually explore how HIV is affecting your community.

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YOUR TOOLBOX

Implementation checklist - The essential elements needed to implement routine HIV screening as a standard of care in your practice.
Download Implementation Checklist (Word : 41 kB)

HIV testing algorithm - A visual chart describing the current recommended testing procedure to diagnose HIV.
Learn More about HIV Testing Algorithm (PDF : 144 kB)

USPSTF grade A recommendation for routine HIV screening - Encourages clinicians to screen adolescents and adults ages 15 to 65.
Learn More about this Recommendation [USPSTF]

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Knowledge is power. Learning one’s positive serostatus is the first step for newly diagnosed HIV patients to get linked to care and treated early in the disease process with the potential to have a nearly normal lifespan.

- C. Everett Koop, Former Surgeon General of the United States

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