Pregnant: The Cdc Recommended Hiv Tests Become A Routine

Jacobs executive director of the hyacinth aids foundation a new jersey nonprofit helping people living with aids said the law is unnecessary and comes when the state should be focused on expanding care for pregnant women. The cdc recommended hiv tests become a routine part of the battery of prenatal tests and that there be no separate written consent required. She said women choose to test their babies in percent of cases so the new laws mandatory provisions for testing children are not needed the fact that we assume women wont choose to test is ludicrous and wrong. That report also found that new jersey has a significant female population living with the disease percent of the total.

Just four other states have mandated testing for pregnant women and three more including new york require screening of newborns.

I definitely think it is an invasion of privacy jacobs said.