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

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testing as a regular part of their care to offer HIV

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testing, to offer HIV material,

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information to those people that you think

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are not at risk, because if you don't have a full medical

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history to decide that someone is not at risk,

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I don't think is 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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That was the smartest thing he ever did.

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

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So for doctors, unless you know someone's entire medical

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history, I think all doctors should just make it a routine

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part of their everyday care.

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For those they feel are at risk, and for those they feel

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aren't at risk.

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Especially gynecologists, because if people got pregnant

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they could've gotten HIV.

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I have been to too many doctors at 33 years old,

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and I lived in San Francisco Bay area, it 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 that we ask.

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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, can you sign here,

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this is a consent for all your labs that I'll be doing

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today, which include an HIV test.

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I think that it's important and you know just like you do

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any other a CBC, you do any other blood work, an HIV test

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should be included, and it could save someone's life.