NEW YORK (AFP) – The city of New York on Thursday launched an HIV-screening campaign that aims to test every adult in the Bronx, the city’s borough most affected by AIDS, the health department said.
Forty locations in the region north of Manhattan, including hospitals, clinics, health centers and places of worship, are offering systematic HIV testing to all patients or visitors — the largest HIV testing initiative in the city’s history.
The objective is to test everyone in the Bronx ages 18 to 64 within the next three years. About 250,000 people, or three of 10 Bronx adult residents, have never been tested, the city estimates.
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