Opt-out HIV testing in A&E departments is to be ramped up in a bid to find undiagnosed cases of the virus, officials have said.
Testing everyone having a blood test in Emergency Departments for HIV works. It helps diagnose people who wouldn't have been reached via any other testing route and who have often been missed before. Richard Angell, Terrence Higgins Trust
Now the Department of Health and Social Care has announced more funding to expand the scheme, which is still operating as a research project, in 46 more emergency departments across England. Officials hope the 20 million National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) project will help the Government achieve its ambition to end new cases of HIV in England by 2030.
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