VAN NUYS : Hospital to Offer Tests for HIV

By HENRY CHU

Feb. 4, 1993 12 AM PT

Valley Hospital Medical Center in Van Nuys will offer confidential HIV testing this weekend and next, officials said.

The hospital will administer confidential, anonymous tests for human immunodeficiency virus--which causes AIDS--in its Community Consultation Center on Saturday and a week later, hospital spokesman Bryan Bishop said. The test costs $15, and results will be available in a week.

Counselors will also be available to answer questions and to offer emotional assistance. Bishop said the tests are being offered as an outreach effort to those who may need HIV/AIDS support.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

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