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HIV TESTING
Testing for human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, offers an opportunity
to alert infected
persons to the need for treatment. Women aged 25-34 years
reported the highest rates of ever being tested for HIV
(61.4 percent). The percent of women who reported being
tested
declined with increasing age, with only 6.1 percent of
women aged 65 and older reporting ever being tested. For
adults
aged 18-44, women were more likely than men ever to have
been tested for HIV, but this trend was reversed for adults
aged 45 and older, with men more likely than women ever
to have been tested.
Among U.S. adult women, non-Hispanic Black
women were the most likely to have ever been tested for
HIV (51.3 percent)
and were 1.6 times more likely to have been tested than
non-Hispanic White women (31.2 percent).
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