June 27, 2006—POZ Editor in Chief Regan Hofmann rang in the opening of the NASDAQ stock exchange at 9:15 ET this morning for National HIV Testing Day with Thomas Frieden, MD, New York City Health Commissioner; Frank Oldham, Jr., executive director of the National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA);  Douglas Michels, CEO of OraSure Technologies, makers of the OraQuick ADVANCE rapid HIV test; and Debra Fraser-Howze, who heads the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS. On a CNBC broadcast, Frieden urged all Americans to get tested, claiming that “knowledge is power” and that every year, 1,000 New Yorkers learn they are HIV positive only when they are diagnosed with an AIDS-defining illness. The Centers for Disease Control estimate that 280,000 of the over one million positive Americans don’t know their status. Cities nationwide rolled out extra testing sites today, and 18 metropolitan mayors in cities from San Francisco to New Orleans have signed on to the Mayors Campaign Against HIV to help increase testing in their cities.