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Podcast: Clinician's Roundtable
Episode: Better Mechanisms to Detect Acute HIV Infection
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Host: Mark Nolan Hill, MD
Guest: Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH
Detection and treatment of HIV in the United States has improved dramatically since the peak of the epidemic here in the 1980s, but there is far more work to be done. HIV transmission is one area of heightened concern, particularly those cases spread by newly infected persons who remain undiagnosed. Though tests are available to diagnose HIV in the acute phase, many experts believe we must improve these tests to really make headway in reducing the incidence of HIV in the United States. Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, a...