Washington, D.C., Tests for AIDS in Stores, Streets and Offices

Washington, D.C., Tests for AIDS in Stores, Streets and Offices - NYTimes.com: Angela Byrde has seen doctors several times a year since she was 12, but they never suggested that she be tested, even though she lives in a city with one of the country’s highest H.I.V. infection rates. Now the city, trying to find the estimated 5,000 Washingtonians who are infected but do not know it, is offering tests in grocery stores and high schools, on corners where addicts gather and even in motor vehicle offices. And it is paying people to take them.

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