As more and more people get infected with the HIV virus, the efforts of the U.S. to test everyone for HIV fail and just 40% of adults in the country have been tested for the fatal virus. There are needed more methods to test everybody, because many people are infected and are unaware of this.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report through which they try to make the officials understand the need of the new methods. They said that "In 2006, 40.4 percent (an estimated 71.5 million persons) of U.S. adults aged 18 to 64 years reported ever being tested for HIV infection.”

"In addition, 10.4 percent (an estimated 17.8 million persons) reported being tested in the preceding 12 months, and 23 percent of persons who acknowledged having HIV risk factors reported being tested in the preceding 12 months,” the CDC concluded their report.

Is it that people don’t really know how they could get infected or they just don’t care? More and more Americans get infected with the HIV/AIDS every year. For example, the number jumps from 40,000 people infected to 56,000 people infected in only one year!

The HIV infected 33 million people all around the world and killed more than 25 million until now. The virus is spread in blood, semen and breast milk. The common ways to get infected are unprotected sex, shared needles and genetic transmission.

The CDC thought that the HIV test should be as easy as possible and available at any visit to the doctor. This could decrease the number of dead people because of HIV. If they are diagnosed before showing the symptoms, they could get medicines to kill the virus.