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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: hiv testing + special status + hiv  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/12/2008)

Hundreds Turn Up for Free HIV/Aids Testing
AllAfrica.com, Washington -
Hundreds of Namibians, both young and old, on Friday swamped the Zoo Park in the city centre to undergo voluntary HIV/Aids testing during the first-ever ...
Beating Aids in Africa means tackling promiscuity
Times Online, UK - May 8, 2008
HIV containment is generally based on the ?three pillars? - promotion and provision of condoms, HIV status testing and treatment of other sexually ...
New Saliva-based HIV Test May Speed Up Detection
Science Daily (press release) - May 6, 2008
"In such cases, it is vital to determine the HIV status of the mother very quickly to prevent transmission to the child during delivery. ...
Namibia: Elderly and HIV/Aids in Country
AllAfrica.com, Washington - May 2, 2008
It is the backdrop of low HIV testing amongst Namibians that has prompted the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) to inaugurate a national HIV ...
Universal Periodic Review of Romania
Human Rights Watch (press release) - May 6, 2008
Children in school risk ostracism, abuse, and even expulsion if their HIV status becomes known; in some cases their health is at risk. ...
Zambia: Universal Periodic Review of Zambia
AllAfrica.com, Washington - May 6, 2008
This obstructs women's ability to access HIV testing, causes them to miss doses of HIV treatment or to miss clinic appointments to collect their medicine. ...
The child prostitutes of Nairobi
Daily Nation, Kenya - May 7, 2008
Most of my friends, some younger than me took courage and went to a Voluntary Counselling and Testing centre for the test, and most were confirmed to be HIV ...
Cyclists Join Fight Against HIV/Aids
AllAfrica.com, Washington - Apr 30, 2008
Know your HIV status, get fit, be focused and do sports not drugs are amongst a horde of messages the cyclists will convey to Namibian youth.
COTE D'IVOIRE: Centre offers children health and hope
Plus News, South Africa - May 8, 2008
PCR testing, which allows a newborn baby's HIV status to be determined from the age of six weeks - compared to 15 to 18 months for standard tests - can only ...
County urges STD testing, prevention
San Mateo Daily Journal, CA - Apr 24, 2008
County health officials are marking April as National Sexually Transmitted Disease Awareness Month by adding special STD and HIV testing clinics in East ...
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The right not to know HIV-test results. -
M Temmerman, J Ndinya-Achola, J Ambani, P Piot - Lancet, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Only 27.2% told their partner their HIV status. ... HIV-negative women requested the
results of the HIV test at the ... they did not consider themselves at special risk ...

HIV Counseling and Testing of Pregnant Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences From a Study on … -
C Kilewo, A Massawe, E Lyamuya, I Semali, F … - JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2001 - jaids.org
... A special postnatal clinic was set up at ... of women who were aware of their positive
HIV status. ... 1 to increase the acceptability of HIV-testing and participation ...

Cost-effectiveness of voluntary HIV-1 counselling and testing in reducing sexual transmission of HIV … -
M Sweat, S Gregorich, G Sangiwa, C Furlonge, D … - The Lancet, 2000 - Elsevier
... a right to know their infection status to protect ... for the impact of counselling and
testing on risk ... reductions in risk behaviour noted among HIV-1-infected men ...

Actual versus perceived HIV status, sexual behaviors and predictors of unprotected sex among young … -
RB Hays, J Paul, M Ekstrand, SM Kegeles, R Stall, … - AIDS, 1997 - aidsonline.com
... for gay men is toward special programs for ... to ask prospective partners about their
HIV status may be ... efforts to understand and address HIV-testing issues among ...

HIV prevalence, risk behaviors, health care use, and mental health status of transgender persons: … -
K Clements-Nolle - American Journal of Public Health, 2001 - Am Public Health Assoc
... Current housing status d Stable 207 (53) 96 (78) <.001 Unstable 185 (47) 26
(21) ... HIV positive (OraSure test result) 137 (35) 2 (2) <.001 ...

Sexual Ethics Disclosure of HIV-Positive Status to Partners -
MD Stein, KA Freedberg, LM Sullivan, J Savetsky, … - Archives of Internal Medicine, 1998 - Am Med Assoc
... offices and clinics as well as through special counseling programs ... Health Service
guidelines for counseling and antibody testing to prevent HIV infection and ...

Revised recommendations for HIV testing of adults, adolescents, and pregnant women in health-care … -
BM Branson, HH Handsfield, MA Lampe, RS Janssen, … - MMWR Recomm Rep, 2006 - cdc.gov
... encourage patients to disclose their HIV status to their ... Special Considerations for
Screening Adolescents. ... required when the adolescent consents to HIV testing. ...

Quantification of HIV in semen: correlation with antiviral treatment and immune status. -
PL Vernazza, BL Gilliam, J Dyer, SA Fiscus, JJ … - AIDS, 1997 - aidsonline.com
... diagnosis (3.9 versus 3.6; P = 0.31, Mann-Whitney U-test). ... designed to reduce the
concentration of HIV in semen ... Special thanks to A. Tschopp for performing the ...

[PDF] … of a short regimen of oral zidovudine to reduce vertical transmission of HIV in breastfed children … -
F Dabis, P Msellati, N Meda, C Welffens-Ekra, B … - Lancet, 1999 - theses.ulb.ac.be
... A second sample was then obtained from each woman who reacted to the first HIV test
to verify her HIV status with a rapid discriminant test (Multispot ...
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Shadow on the continent: public health and HIV/AIDS in Africa in the 21st century -
KM De Cock, D Mbori-Ngacha, E Marum - The Lancet, 2002 - Elsevier
... creation by WHO of the Special (later the ... Universal know-your-status campaigns would
need advertising ... to emphasise the benefits of HIV testing, expansion of ...

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HIV Testing Should Not Have Special Status
HIV testing should not be accorded any special status in the UK as knowledge about HIV status can be lifesaving, argues a doctor in a letter to this week's BMJ.

Such opinions are seemingly ignored by the UK government and medical establishment, whereas in the United States reform is under way, writes retired general practitioner, Dr Martin Brewster.

He refers to the cases of two apparently healthy babies who presented later with established HIV because the mothers' infection had escaped detection. Abolishing exceptionalism would prevent such failure, he argues.
And he warns that, if reform does not come soon, legal liability and negligent practice court action will become a reality.

A high court judgement in 1999 ruled that an infant's human rights to HIV testing outweigh parental rights of choice, and it can only be a matter of time before another court finds the right to be born free of HIV infection outweighs all other considerations, he says.

Doctors and politicians failing to take note do so at their future peril, he warns. Waiting for cost effectiveness evidence is unethical.

A second letter argues that policymakers should consider not the cost of developing a vaccine against HIV, but the cost to society if it fails to develop one.

Public policy expert, Jeremiah Norris says that if the rate of HIV drug resistance in the developing world is around 10% then 200,000 people would be drug resistant by 2010 and would move on to second line therapies. But second line treatments are over 20 times as expensive as first line ones, and patients on such treatments need care from skilled and relatively well paid medical professionals, he warns.

Failing to focus on developing an AIDS vaccine will lead to a sequential increase in the number of chronically sick people whose care and maintenance will prove financially unsustainable for donors and affected governments, he concludes.

Letter: HIV exceptionalism must end
BMJ Volume 335 p 60

Letter: The societal costs of failing to develop a vaccine
BMJ Volume 335 p 60

http://www.bmj.com
 
 
 
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