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Clinton urges wider HIV testing

    JOHANNESBURG

    Universal HIV testing in developing countries with high levels of infection could prove valuable in tackling the spread of the pandemic, former US President Bill Clinton said on Tuesday.

    However, he stressed that this type of intervention was better suited to countries where there was no discrimination against HIV-positive people and suitable treatment was readily available.

    "I think there needs to be a total rethinking of this testing position in the AIDS community, and a real push for this," the former president said in a statement.

    Clinton noted that he supported the Southern African kingdom of Lesotho, the first country to introduce compulsory testing of all its 2.2 million citizens, of whom 27 percent are HIV-positive.

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