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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: hiv + test + special  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)


BBC News
Bill Clinton rallies HIV workers
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6 Journal of the American Medical Association, a special issue on HIV/AIDS. "This study tells us that a rationally dosed growth hormone regimen does a ...

WELT ONLINE
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Back to basics for failed HIV vaccine
New Scientist (subscription), UK -
His report follows the cancellation on 17 July of a plan to test the latest generation of HIV vaccine on more than 8500 people. ...
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Beyond the usual chalkboard work
Malawi's Daily Times, Malawi - Aug 4, 2008
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GLOBAL BUSINESS COALITION: AMID INTERNATIONAL CALLS FOR BUSINESS ...
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New Treatment Guidelines For HIV Antiretroviral Therapy
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A Study of Clients Returning for Counseling after HIV Testing: Implications for Improving Rates of … -
RO Valdiserri, M Moore, AR Gerber, CH Campbell Jr, … - Public Health Reports, 1993 - questia.com
... Therefore, counselors in STD clinic settings should make special efforts during
pretest ... or current episodes of STD), to return for HIV test result disclosure ...

The right not to know HIV-test results. -
M Temmerman, J Ndinya-Achola, J Ambani, P Piot - Lancet, 1995 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... positive women and HIV-negative women requested the results of the HIV test at the
same rate, suggesting that they did not consider themselves at special risk. ...

On-site, rapid HIV testing with same-day results and counseling. -
WJ Kassler, BA Dillon, C Haley, WK Jones, A … - AIDS, 1997 - aidsonline.com
... clinic for confirmatory results and post-test counseling and ... in considerable
cost-savings in the STD Clinic where ... Special thanks go to the HIV counselors 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
... 65% of US adults surveyed concurred that HIV testing should be treated the same
as screening for any other disease, without special procedures such as written ...

Acceptability of voluntary HIV testing by pregnant women in developing countries: an international … -
M Cartoux, N Meda, P Van de Perre, ML Newell, I de … - AIDS, 1998 - aidsonline.com
... programme for women should address HIV testing, MCT of ... to reduce the risk of
transmitting HIV to their ... Special thanks to Dr Lieve Fransen (European Commission ...

… Connected to Care, Evaluation, and Special Services) project: social marketing to promote HIV -
DC Futterman, L Peralta, BJ Rudy, S Wolfson, S … - Journal of Adolescent Health, 2001 - popline.org
Title: The ACCESS (Adolescents Connected to Care, Evaluation, and Special Services)
project: social marketing to promote HIV testing to adolescents, methods ...
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Laboratory testing and rapid HIV assays: applications for HIV surveillance in hard-to-reach … -
RA Respess, MA Rayfield, TJ Dondero - AIDS, 2001 - aidsonline.com
... many of the advantages (distinguishing HIV-1 from HIV-2, viral ... well as the limitations
of non-blood-based test approaches in special settings need ...

… Sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences From a Study on Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV-1 Transmission in … -
C Kilewo, A Massawe, E Lyamuya, I Semali, F … - JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2001 - jaids.org
... and counseling and testing was offered to them free of charge at the special Petra
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On-site HIV testing in resource-poor settings: is one rapid test enough?. -
D Wilkinson, N Wilkinson, C Lombard, D Martin, A … - AIDS, 1997 - aidsonline.com
... for rapid HIV testing [1]. Specimens were concurrently tested with both kits by
two medical technologists as part of routine work and no special training was ...

[PDF] Factors affecting uptake of antenatal HIV testing in London: results of a multicentre study -
DM Gibb, SE MacDonagh, R Gupta, PA Tookey, CS … - BMJ, 1998 - hawaii.edu
... II=discussion with midwife, referral to HIV counsellor for all ... by counsellor;
III=discussion, test offer, and ... by midwife; all results by special appointment; IV ...
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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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