Posted on 04/29/2013 11:29:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
An influential U.S. panel is calling for HIV screening for all Americans aged 15 to 65, regardless of whether they are considered to be at high risk, a change that may help lift some of the stigma associated with HIV testing.
The new guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a government-backed panel of doctors and scientists, now align with longstanding recommendations by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing of all adults aged 15 to 65, regardless of their risk. …
Despite strides in reducing cases of HIV infection in the United States in the past three decades, as many as 50,000 Americans become infected with the virus each year. The CDC estimates that almost 1.2 million people in the United States are infected with HIV, yet 20 percent to 25 percent of them do not know it. …
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“Abbott Laboratories’
Worked in a lab for many years and Abbott was the only company I remember that had their test kits pulled because they were giving questionable results. Their products were off of the market for quite some time.
This has to be satire...
D-Day for Abbott
In Vivo, December 1999, Vol. 17, No. 11, p. 3-7
“January 10 is D-Day for Abbott Laboratories Inc. to pull 125 diagnostic tests off the market as part of its consent decree with the FDA (See “Abbott Gets into Hot Water, “ IN VIVO November 1999). The decree, which follows the FDA’s accusation that Abbott used shoddy manufacturing processes in its main US-based manufacturing plants, is unprecedented— and hurts far more than Abbott alone. “
Just another excuse for Big Brother to stick his nose
in business that they have no justification for being
involved with. While they are at it why not collect
DNA samples, search your house for anything “dangerous”
and hand you a diet that was approved by the White House
Wookie.
Same here. Blood donor and military. We get tested every two years if we don’t donate.
Tests are absolutely free now, to those on medicare. No deductibles, no co pays, unlike anything else that medicare covers.
Hey, now. For some of us, the strange ones are the only ones we had a shot with.
Part of the plan to make “AIDS everyone’s problem.”
Don't tell me this information won't be released to a federal database.
So because some people engage in risky behavior and contract HIV, we have to test everyone so THEY won't be 'stigmatized' because of THEIR actions?
ROFLMAO!
Good luck with that.
My guess is that this is the discovered cases of infection in which the carrier claims he didn't know. In other words, this is the LOW end of the infection rate among homosexuals. Probably above 50%.
It will have to be by force because I’m not willingly giving a sample.
“Who supplies the tests and how much do they cost? Who on the panel has stock in the companies? Sounds like a crony payoff to me.”
+1
I’m glad those folks didn’t try the same thing with lobotomies.
I agree. This isn’t an airbourne disease, you have to engage in particular behavior to get it.
I had to make a trip to an emergency room many years agp. I didn’t have health insurance. I told them I had run out of some medication, who my Dr. was, etc. They asked me if I had done drugs and I said no. I get the bill and they charged me for a drug test. I disputed it and they told me that people lie. I told them that if they wanted to treat me like a criminal I sure wasn’t going to pay for the test. Took me some hell raising but I won.
They’ll just perform the test with other blood tests. You’ll have to vehemently forbid this, but you’ll never know if they do.
I’m still relatively young and healthy, so this encroachment seriously discourages me from getting checkups.
A better approach would be for everyone to stop having sex with strangers in bathrooms and at interstate rest stops.
In related news:
Newly Founded Organization Takes on FDA Gay Blood Ban
http://www.advocate.com/health/2013/04/23/newly-founded-organization-takes-fda-gay-blood-ban
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