HIV-Tested

Site Principal Investigator: Dr. Douglas AE White

Funder: NIH 5R01AI106057-04

The Levitt Center is a subawardee on this multi-center trial of 3 different strategies to increase the effectiveness of ED-based screening for HIV, a novel use of the emergency care system pioneered by Dr. White and others more than 10 years ago.  Because the ED is a key source of care for people at high risk for HIV, the ED has become a rich source for discovering and linking to care people infected with HIV but undiagnosed. Dr. White has spent the intervening years investigating the optimal approach for ED-based screening, and this grant, in collaboration with Denver Health as the primary grantee for HIV-TESTED as well as Johns Hopkins University and the University of Cincinnati, is a big step forward in such an effort.