AMA Rejects Bid for Wider Routine AIDS Testing

The American Medical Association yesterday rejected the Reagan administration's call for significantly expanded routine testing for the AIDS virus in favor of widespread voluntary testing and counseling and new laws that would protect the civil liberties of those tested.

The AMA, the nation's largest and most politically influential medical organization, endorsed testing military personnel and blood and organ donors, which is under way, as well as screening immigrants and prisoners, but refused to support the administration's call for widespread routine testing of hospitalized…