 
January 3, 2013
HIV Testing Pilot Project in Vancouver Hospitals to Expand
An HIV testing pilot project in Canada will expand, The Canadian Press reports. Launched in four Vancouver hospitals in 2011, the program began offering HIV tests to patients on admission when other blood tests were ordered. Before then, HIV tests were only offered to people considered at high risk for the virus. More than 30 people have tested HIV positive. The provincial government will expand the project to the rest of British Columbia in 2013.
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Randall Lloyd, Vancouver, 2013-01-06 19:50:38
This testing should be mandatory for everyone not just an option & it should have started back in the eighties. As a healthcare worker & an HIV+ person I have seen the risks without knowing ones status as I became HIV+ after being stuck with a contaminated needle at work in the late nineties. Think of how many of our friends & loved ones could have been saved if they would have started this sooner.
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