A growing amount of all care in California is being provided in our state’s emergency departments. This includes HIV testing. But no data source shows how many HIV tests each ED performs, or how many of those tests find HIV. Help us build the first statewide, ED-based dataset on HIV testing.
1of 310 California EDs contributing · 1 of 58 counties
310 emergency departments across 55 of the state’s 58 counties, shaded by how many each county has.
EDs per county:None12–34–910–2470
California’s EDs are spread unevenly across the state: Los Angeles County alone has 70, while three counties have none. Many of these EDs serve as the front, and often only, door to care for Californians without insurance or stable housing. The state has begun to invest in ED screening; in 2023, California funded 28 EDs to screen for HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis C, and it has set aside $60 million more under SB 164.
Collaborating institutions include:
This work is supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) K08AI181642. Work and opinions here are those of the study team. They should not be construed to represent views of either the NIH or NIAID.
