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Recently, Gellert and colleagues expressed strong concern about office-based test systems for HIV, believing that such tests will compromise effective programs of AIDS surveillance and prevention1. We question their judgment. As the HIV epidemic continues to rage out of control, it is not clear that current prevention strategies are effective. It is imperative that new approaches be tried -- ones that also strive to protect uninfected persons from infection, thereby interrupting the transmission cycle.