Universal HIV testing is recommended in: | genitourinary medicine or sexual health clinics antenatal services termination of pregnancy services drug dependency programmes healthcare services for those diagnosed with tuberculosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and lymphoma.
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Routine HIV testing is recommended in the following settings, where diagnosed HIV prevalence in the local population exceeds 2/1,000: | |
HIV testing should also be routinely offered and recommended for: | all patients presenting for healthcare where HIV, including primary HIV infection, enters the differential diagnoses all patients diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection all sexual partners of men and women known to be HIV positive all men who have disclosed sexual contact with other men all female sexual contacts of men who have sex with men all transgender persons all patients reporting a history of injecting drug use all men and women known to be from a country of high HIV prevalence (>1%)a all men and women who report sexual contact abroad or in the UK with individuals from countries of high prevalence.a
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