We recommend that health care providers know the HIV status of all patients under their care.13
Specifically, we recommend that providers offer an HIV test
- Routinely, every five years, to all patients aged 18-70 years
- Routinely, every year, to all patients aged 18-70 years who belong to populations with a higher burden of HIV infection
- Once for patients older than 70 years of age, if HIV status is not known
AND offer an HIV test to patients including adults 18-70, youth and the elderly, whenever
- Ordering diagnostic blood-work for a new or worsening medical condition
- They present with symptoms of HIV infection or advanced HIV disease
- They or their providers identify a risk for HIV acquisition
- They request an HIV test
- They are pregnant
- You test for or diagnose a sexually transmitted infection (STI), hepatitis C, hepatitis B or tuberculosis
