Volume 5, Issue 9

Tactics to Improve HIV Screening

In this issue:

HIV testing is the necessary first step in reducing infection and interrupting transmission; without it, any efforts at diagnosis and appropriate treatment are severely impaired. But testing acceptance in particular populations has been and remains especially low. 

In this issue, Dr. Cedric Bien-Gund from the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Pennsylvania analyzes the current literature reporting on the strategies to reach these at high-risk people. 

Learning objectives:

  • Describe different HIV testing options available to clinicians and the potential advantages and disadvantages to each approach.  
  • Discuss the potential benefits and limitations to HIV self-testing strategies.  

Author:

Cedric Bien-Gund, MD
Cedric Bien-Gund, MD

Fellow in Infectious Diseases 
Division of Infectious Diseases 
Department of Medicine 
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine


Program Directors:

Ethel D. Weld, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Physiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
(she/her/hers)

Matthew Spinelli, MD, MAS

Associate Professor
HIV, ID, and Global Medicine
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, CA
(he/him/his)

Justin Alves, RN, FNP-BC, ACRN, CARN, CNE

Nurse Educator
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA
(he/him/his)

Length of activity:

1.0 hour Physicians
1.0 contact hour Nurses

Launch date: July 9, 2020
Expiration date: July 8, 2022