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At Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, a borough that is home to 2.3 million people from more than 100 countries, lactation consultants spend extra time explaining to Bangladeshi women that the yellow breast milk they produce right after birth is not dirty.

Change in state law requires health professionals to offer voluntary HIV tests to patients 13 to 64 years old. New law also simplifies informed consent process, allowing for verbal consent in some circumstances.

Isaiah Webster questions whether the routine integration of HIV testing as a medical standard of care is a sound strategy and suggests that doing so is "misguided and lazy." His views on HIV screening are surprisingly myopic and illustrate how little success we have had in framing HIV as a chronic, treatable disease that warrants integration as a routine health service.

The Council of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise on Tuesday released a new strategy for HIV vaccine research, which marked "the culmination of an 18-month effort that included the input of 400 scientists worldwide," VOA News reports (DeCapua, 9/7).