Sala de emergencia combate contagio de VIH

A person does a blood test at a roadside AIDS testing table in Langa, a suburb of Cape Town during the International AIDS Day on December 01, 2010. A million people are now receiving anti-AIDS drugs in South Africa, a country with the world's heaviest HIV infections, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said. South Africa has 5.6 million people who are HIV-positive out of a 50-million population, according to UN estimates. AFP PHOTO/RODGER BOSCH (Photo credit should read RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images) — RODGER BOSCH / AFP/Getty Images
A person does a blood test at a roadside AIDS testing table in Langa, a suburb of Cape Town during the International AIDS Day on December 01, 2010. A million people are now receiving anti-AIDS drugs in South Africa, a country with the world’s heaviest HIV infections, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said. South Africa has 5.6 million people who are HIV-positive out of a 50-million population, according to UN estimates. AFP PHOTO/RODGER BOSCH (Photo credit should read RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images)

PUBLISHED: November 30, 2015 at 5:05 p.m. | UPDATED: June 4, 2018 at 11:21 a.m.

CHICAGO- Una treintena de pacientes que acudieron al Hospital de la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago (UIC) por diferentes razones descubrieron estar infectados con el virus de VIH sin sospecharlo.

Más de 6,200 pruebas concluyeron con la detección del virus en 31 pacientes en un año, gracias al programa Project HEAL, una iniciativa de la Universidad de Illinois en Chicago que entrena al personal para que a cada paciente que acuda a la sala de emergencias y se le practique una extracción de sangre, se le haga una prueba de VIH.