Recommendations for HIV Screening of Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men — United States, 2017

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Personal Author:
  DiNenno, Elizabeth A. ; Prejean, Joseph ; Irwin, Kathleen ; Delaney, Kevin P. ; Bowles, Kristina ; Martin, Tricia ; Tailor, Amrita ; Dumitru, Gema ; Mullins, Mary M. ; Hutchinson, Angela B. ; Lansky, Amy
• Description:
  Updates the 2006 HIV Screening Guidelines for MSM.
  
  CDC's 2006 recommendations for human immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) tTesting state that all persons aged 13-64 years should be screened for HIV at least once, and that persons at higher risk for HIV infection, including sexually active gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM), should be rescreened at least annually (1). Authors of reports published since 2006, including CDC (2), suggested that MSM, a group that is at highest risk for HIV infection, might benefit from being screened more frequently than once each year. In 2013, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) found insufficient evidence to specify an HIV rescreening interval but recommended annual screening for MSM as a reasonable approach (3). However, some HIV providers have begun to offer more frequent screening, such as once every 3 or 6 months, to some MSM. A CDC work group conducted a systematic literature review and held four expert consultations to review programmatic experience to determine whether there was sufficient evidence to change the 2006 CDC recommendation (i.e., at least annual HIV screening of MSM in clinical settings). The CDC work group concluded that the evidence remains insufficient to recommend screening more frequently than at least once each year. CDC continues to recommend that clinicians screen asymptomatic sexually active MSM at least annually. Each clinician can consider the benefits of offering more frequent screening (e.g., once every 3 or 6 months) to individual MSM at increased risk for acquiring HIV infection, weighing their patients' individual risk factors, local HIV Epidemiology, and local tTesting policies.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Full Report HIV Infections Homosexuality, Male Humans Male Mass Screening Middle Aged Practice Guidelines As Topic Risk Assessment Young Adult

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• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 66(31):830-832.
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• DOI:
  http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6631a3
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Pubmed ID:
  28796758
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5687782
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• Volume:
  66
• Issue:
  31
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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