| | An HIV-testing initiative that aims to screen every adult treated at four Houston emergency rooms and two inner-Loop clinics has proved a long-held theory among medical experts: Hundreds are unknowingly living with the virus that causes AIDS.
The routine testing pilot program, which marks two years in Houston this month, has diagnosed one person with HIV out of every 100 tested.
People who get their primary medical care "free" at emergency rooms and inner-city clinics are not a representative subsample of the general populace. It is not a big stretch to imagine such a group testing HIV positive at a considerably higher rate than the general populace.
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