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The aim of our work was to evaluate the potential impact of the European policy of testing for HIV all individuals presenting with an indicator disease, to prevent late diagnosis of HIV. We report on a retrospective analysis among individuals diagnosed with HIV to assess whether a history of certain diseases prior to HIV diagnosis was associated with the chance of presenting late for care, and to estimate the proportion of individuals presenting late who could have been diagnosed earlier if tested when the indicator disease was diagnosed.Methods
We studied a large cohort of individuals newly diagnosed with HIV infection in 13 counselling and testing sites in the Lazio Region, Italy (01/01/2004-30/04/2009). Considered indicator diseases were: viral hepatitis infec"],"journal":["BMC infectious diseases"],"pagination":["473"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3852490"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["The potential impact of routine testing of individuals with HIV indicator diseases in order to prevent late HIV diagnosis."],"pmcid":["PMC3852490"],"pubmed_authors":["Tozzi V","Raponi GN","Scognamiglio P","Sampaolesi A","Chiaradia G","Tacconi L","Caterini A","Girardi E","Pace G","Petrosillo N","Orchi N","Falciano M","Gallo I","Andreoni M","Noto P","Vincenzi L","Zaccarelli M","Giuliani M","Pittalis S","Zaniratti S","Forbici F","Sarmati L","Boumis E","Narciso P","Nicastri E","Bellagamba R","Francesconi M","Fusco FM","Perno CF","Angeletti C","Ammassari A","Visco Comandini U","Di Bacco R","Bevilacqua N","Pitorri A","De Filippis A","D'Offizi G","Vullo V","Lauria FN","Liuzzi G","Navarra A","Capobianchi MR","Chinello P","Nurra G","Gattari P","Aviani Barbacci S","Antinori A","Giancola L","Galati V","Cerilli S","Brancatella R","Balzano R","Vlassi C","Topino S","Gori C","Sias C","Mariano A","Mastroianni CM","Grisetti S","Palmieri A","Schito S","Selleri M","Errico F","Spizzichino L","Baldini F","Di Carlo A","Ippolito G","D'Arrigo R","Anzalone E","Palummieri A","Maggi T","Ghirga P","Sciarrone MR","Elia P","De Carli G","Puro V","Corpolongo A","Marconi P","Buonomini AR","Alba L","Mercurio VS","Lichtner M","SENDIH Study Group","Pisapia R"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"The potential impact of routine testing of individuals with HIV indicator diseases in order to prevent late HIV diagnosis.","description":"Background
The aim of our work was to evaluate the potential impact of the European policy of testing for HIV all individuals presenting with an indicator disease, to prevent late diagnosis of HIV. We report on a retrospective analysis among individuals diagnosed with HIV to assess whether a history of certain diseases prior to HIV diagnosis was associated with the chance of presenting late for care, and to estimate the proportion of individuals presenting late who could have been diagnosed earlier if tested when the indicator disease was diagnosed.Methods
We studied a large cohort of individuals newly diagnosed with HIV infection in 13 counselling and testing sites in the Lazio Region, Italy (01/01/2004-30/04/2009). Considered indicator diseases were: viral hepatitis infec","dates":{"release":"2013-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2013 Oct","modification":"2025-04-26T09:59:14.2Z","creation":"2019-03-27T03:09:50Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC3852490","cross_references":{"pubmed":["24112129"],"doi":["10.1186/1471-2334-13-473"]}}