From the Washington Post, by Nikita StewartAs of Tuesday this week, getting tested for HIV in the District will be as easy as renewing a driver's license.
In what District officials say is the first effort of its kind in the nation, the city will partner with a nonprofit group to offer free HIV testing at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Penn Branch in southeast Washington. Participants will receive up to $15 to help defray their DMV costs.
"We wanted to have a broad audience and a captive audience. You're captive at the DMV." -Angela Fulwood Wood, chief operations officer of the Family and Medical Counseling Service
The year-long project would be another way to reach residents in a city where a 2008 epidemiology update concluded that 3 percent of the population had HIV/AIDS. That is well above the 1 percent considered to be a general epidemic, advocates for prevention and city officials said.
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Read the Washington Post's coverage of the program's success: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dc/2010/10/response_to_hiv_testing_at_dmv.html
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