RT Journal
A1 Halloran J, Czarnogorski M, Dursa EK, et al
T1 HIv testing in the us department of veterans affairs, 2009-2010
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD January 9
VO 172
IS 1
SP 61
OP 62
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.510
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.510
AB 
Congressional repeal of long-standing requirements barring widespread HIV testing and requiring written informed consent allowed for change in VA HIV testing policy. In August 2009, the VA aligned its HIV testing policies with the 2006 recommendations on HIV testing by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention2 to offer voluntary HIV testing to all veterans, regardless of age, as part of routine health care at least once, and annually for those veterans with ongoing risk factors. These policy changes also allowed informed consent for such testing to be obtained verbally at VAMCs, regardless of individual state law.