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  1. Factors Conferring “High Risk” Category Membership - Value Set Here

    1. Male-to-male sexual contact

    2. IV drug use

    3. Heterosexual or other contact with:

      • Anal intercourse without condom

      • Vaginal intercourse without a condom and with more than 1 partner whose HIV status is unknown

      • Individuals who exchange sex for drugs or money

      • Having STI

      • Partner with STI

      • Partner with HIV

      • Partner in other high-risk category above

    4. People requesting STI testing

    5. Patients with TB

  2. Indication for immediate screening:

    • Healthcare exposure to blood or other infectious bodily fluid

    • Request for pre-exposure screening prior to new partner


Testing:

Pregnant women in labor, recommend Rapid HIV test—otherwise routine HIV testing

  • Rapid testing: Rapid HIV test IF POSITIVE then:
    • also order HIV-1 and HIV-2 with HIV-1 p24 antigen IF POSITIVE then use routine testing pathway
  • IF NEGATIVE:
  • OR
  • Routine testing: HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies with HIV-1 p24 antigen with reflex (automatic) supplemental testing if positive
  • IF NEGATIVE: STOP
  • AND: If supplemental testing indeterminate:
  • HIV-1 RNA

  • After all NEGATIVE testing:
    • Routine safe sex counseling
    • Consider offering PrEP
  • After all POSITIVE testing:
    • Optimally there would be an HIV treatment CDS pathway triggered
    • At a minimum:
      • Counseling
      • Referral for HIV specialty treatment
      • HIV viral load test


HIV Screening Protocol