Between November 13 and 15, 2008, the American Academy of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM) sponsored a series of meetings in Washington, DC to encourage greater routine HIV screening nationwide.  These meetings were undertaken as a strategy to support the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revised recommendations on HIV screening issued September 22, 2006 that called for routine screening for adults, adolescents, and pregnant women ages 13-64 in health care settings. These recommendations were under-scored in August 2008 when the CDC, through new technology, revised upwards the national the number of new infections, suggesting that the epidemic is worse that originally thought.   

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