BMJ  2005;330 (4 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7503.0-c

HIV infections should be diagnosed earlier

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, some 30% of people infected with HIV are being diagnosed late (with CD4 lymphocyte counts below 200 cells/µl) and only about 40% through routine screening. In a national case review, Sullivan and colleagues (p 1301) used structured questionnaire forms to obtain data on 977 patients from 113 centres that provide care for adults with HIV infection. One in five HIV positive patients had had symptoms that were likely to be related to HIV in the year before the diagnosis.

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