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As health departments, community organizations and AIDS advocates around the country observe National HIV Testing Day, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) issued a statement criticizing the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) for its failure to implement its own landmark 2006 change it its official HIV testing Replica Bedat & CO Watches guidelines that included the recommendation for routine testing of all individuals ages 13-64 for HIV as they visit or encounter routine healthcare settings.

According to AHF, health bureaucrats at the CDC and in the field rely on outdated, ineffectual behavioral interventions as the number of new HIV infections in the US-now, thought to be about 56,000 new cases each year-continues to grow.

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"Having a policy on routine HIV testing is absolutely worthless unless you implement it," said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which conducts over 40,000 free HIV and STD tests annually throughout California, Florida and Washington, DC. "With rapid HIV testing technology, the process have never been easier, yet the CDC still relies on useless behavioral interventions to try to address the US epidemic. The CDC and other government bodies do not put enough priority on testing when it comes to funding programs."

Replica Corum Watches AIDS Healthcare Foundation is a global AIDS organization and provides medical care and/or services to more than 137,000 individuals in 23 countries worldwide in the U.S., Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia Pacific Region and Eastern Europe.

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