HIV ‘Kiosks’ Spur AIDS Awareness
By Kathryn Lurie | May 19th, 2008 | | 
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Kathryn Lurie
BRIEF DISCUSSION: Dr. Jason Leider of Jacobi Medical Center helped start Project BRIEF, which aims to boost the number of people tested for HIV by offering the test in emergency rooms.
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It could be the most important 20 minutes of your life.
Doctors at Jacobi Medical Center want to get the word out about a program they’ve created that allows people to be tested for HIV - quickly and confidentially - while getting important lessons on AIDS prevention.
The idea behind Project BRIEF is to boost the number of people tested for the AIDS virus by offering the test in emergency rooms via individual, portable “HIV kiosks.”
