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YEAR: 1991

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Targeted HIV screening at a Los Angeles prenatal / family planning health

center.

AUTHORS

Fehrs LJ; Hill D; Kerndt PR; Rose TP; Henneman C

SOURCE

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 1991 May;81(5):619-22.

ABSTRACT

In 1988, the Los Angeles County Health Department conducted a blinded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

seroprevalence study at a public prenatal (PN) and family planning (FP) center serving mostly Hispanic women in

order to determine seroprevalence and to evaluate the center's targeted HIV screening program. 4 women (0.13%)

tested positive (3/1801 PN and 1/1167 FP). 3 reported no risk factors; 1 reported a history of syphilis since 1978.

Voluntary HIV testing was selectively offered to women who reported risk factors for HIV infection. Only 14% (96/685)

of clients offered testing chose to use it: 28% (14/50) of clients classified as being at high-risk of infection and 27%

(14/50) who judged themselves as having had some chance of exposure to HIV. None of the 4 women who tested

positively by blinded testing chose testing. While few women at this center were infected with HIV, higher-risk

women were not persuaded to be tested through a targeted screening program. Blinded HIV seroprevalence studies

provide a tool for both tracking infection in a population and evaluating screening programs. (author's)

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT3T 2025-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Targeted HIV screening at a Los Angeles prenatal / family

planning health center.", is(are) Fehrs LJ; Hill D; Kerndt PR; Rose TP; Henneman C. The source of this article is

"AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 1991 May;81(5):619-22.". This article was published in 1991 in English

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 2025-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 12025

This article is peer-reviewed.

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