14 DAY TRIAL // Up until recently, it was recommended that only adults and teens known to have an increased risk for HIV should be tested on a fairly regular basis.
However, the US Preventive Services Task Force now says that all Americans between the ages of 15 and 65 would best be tested for HIV, regardless of how high or how low their risk of getting said virus is.
As Live Science explains, this means that the new guidelines set in place by the US Preventive Service Task Force recommend that both people who do not have unprotected intimate relations with other people, and men who do not have intimate relations with other men undergo screening.
The organization also says that all pregnant women should be tested for HIV, the same source informs us.
By the looks of it, these new guidelines have been pieced together after several studies have shown that, when HIV is found before the patient starts manifesting symptoms, keeping the virus under control and preventing it from affecting other people as well is within reach.