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<v ->My advice for medical care providers is</v>

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to have HIV testing as a regular part of their care,

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to offer HIV testing, to offer HIV material, information,

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to those people that you think are not at risk.

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Because if you don't have a full medical history

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to decide that someone's not at risk,

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I don't think it's a smart idea.

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I wasn't in a relationship when I was diagnosed,

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and hadn't been for a year and a half,

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but that one doctor said, maybe we should do an HIV test,

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and that was the smartest thing he ever did.

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If he wouldn't have, I wouldn't be alive today.

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So for doctors, unless you know someone's

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entire medical history, I think all doctors

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should just make it a routine part of their everyday care

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for those they feel are at risk,

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and those they feel aren't at risk.

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Especially gynecologists, because if people got pregnant,

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they could have gotten HIV.

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I've been to too many doctors at 33 years old,

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and I lived in San Francisco Bay Area, there was no reason

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why I shouldn't have been tested for HIV.

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And I don't think it should be something

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that we ask, do you want an HIV test,

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of course not, who wants an HIV test.

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But, you should get an HIV test, or here,

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can you sign here, this is a consent for all your labs

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that I'll be doing today, which include an HIV test.

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I think that it's important,

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and, you know, just like you do any other,

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CBC, do any other blood work, HIV should be included,

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and it can save somebody's life.