The article on HIV testing provides a compelling argument for identifying high-risk patients and attempting to diagnose HIV infection early. It provided an impetus to review the recorded HIV status of patients from countries of high HIV prevalence in our practice, and we searched and identified 124 patients born in sub-Saharan African countries. Among these, there are a variety of ages and ethnic groups. For the vast majority of these, no HIV status is recorded.
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