Expanding the horizons: new approaches to providing HIV testing services in the United States.

This supplemental issue of Public Health Reports presents new strategies for the delivery of human immuno deficiency virus (HIV) testing services in the United States, particularly the delivery of testing services to people from racial/ethnic minority groups. These topics are timely because of a convergence of policy, improved technology, and persistent disparities in the HIV epidemic. Much is new: 2008 marks six years since the licens ing of the first HIV rapid test approved for use with finger-stick whole blood specimens; five years since the launch of the Centers for Disease Control and