The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) requests approval for a new data collection called
"National Survey of HIV Testing in Hospitals" for 2 years in order
to evaluate the impact of changes to the CDC's recommendations for
HIV testing in health-care settings. CDC's HIV Prevention Strategic
Plan establishes four goals to reduce the annual number of new HIV
infections in the United States. One of these goals is to increase
the proportion of HIV-infected people in the United States who know
they are infected. Of the more than one million persons estimated
to be infected with HIV in the United States, 24-27% were unaware
of their infection. Routine rapid HIV testing programs in emergency
departments and urgent care centers have great potential to
identify a large number of previously undiagnosed individuals.
However, prior to the release of the revised CDC recommendations of
2006, few such programs existed in the United States The extent to
which hospitals have adopted the revised recommendations published
by CDC in 2006, and their potential impact on HIV testing policies
and practices in hospitals is currently unknown. To determine
uptake and assess the impact of the CDC's revised recommendations
on HIV testing practices and policies in hospitals, the CDC will
conduct a nationwide survey of U.S. hospitals.
US Code:
3 USC
301 Name of Law: General Powers and Duties of Public Health
Service
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
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the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
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