Posted on 11/20/2012 6:26:10 AM PST by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON — There's a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks.
Americans ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test at least once — not just people considered at high risk for the virus, an independent panel that sets screening guidelines proposed Monday.
The draft guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are the latest recommendations that aim to make HIV screening simply a routine part of a check-up, something a doctor can order with as little fuss as a cholesterol test or a mammogram. Since 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also has pushed for widespread, routine HIV screening.
Yet not nearly enough people have heeded that call: Of the more than 1.1 million Americans living with HIV, nearly 1 in 5 — almost 240,000 people — don't know it. Not only is their own health at risk without treatment, they could unwittingly be spreading the virus to others.
The updated guidelines will bring this long-simmering issue before doctors and their patients again — emphasizing that public health experts agree on how important it is to test even people who don't think they're at risk, because they could be.
"It allows you to say, 'This is a recommended test that we believe everybody should have. We're not singling you out in any way,'" said task force member Dr. Douglas Owens of Stanford University and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.
And if finalized, the task force guidelines could extend the number of people eligible for an HIV screening without a copay in their doctor's office, as part of free preventive care under the Obama administration's health care law.
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Sorry for the double post. The site page is acting odd.
I agree that this is simply an effort to further mainstream AIDS as “just another disease” and remove the social stigma. The incrementalism at work to normalize homosexuality and other perversions continues on.
When the aids “epidemic” first came on the bathhouse scene, the CDC refuse categorically to call it an epidemic, and thus consigned hemophiliacs and others requiring blood transfusions in the discovery phase of the nasty disorder to certain death by aids. It was quite a while before control over the blood supply was gained. In that period many thousands, possibly tens of thousands, died as a result of those poor decisions.
So now years later at least 30 years later, we suddenly need to do something?
An HIV test has been a standard part of normal blood work for pregnant women in Delaware for at least 15 years. It was kind of surprising too see it on the paper work with the results I was given.
Couple of weeks, I imagine. WEll, after they get the paperwork in order.
Hmm. I wonder how efficient HIS system will be. Maybe for things like this very much so.
This is likely about identifying .
The gays think OB is favorable to them.
Wrongo!
Only in pre election mode.
They go under the bus - left w/o health care pretty quick.
Which group is next in line for under-the-bus-dom?
They can blow me... oh wait, that would put me at risk. I already have taken an HIV test. It’s the test with the question that begins with “do you take this woman.”
They do mandatory AIDS/HIV testing in Arab countries before they grant a work visa and every time your visa is up for renewal.
If you test positive you are barred form entering the country. I don’t know what they do with the citizens of that country though.
They should narrow that down to the gay community and their supporters. If I have to be a medical tourist, so be it.
I will not comply.
It's Rick Perry and the HPV vaccine follow the money scam all over again.
“DNA DATABASE.... Wake up people.”
Exactly. This is about control over the people.
Costs? One size fits all. Let’s start with all homosexuals taking the test first. They are the biggest at risk population.
Everyone Has AIDS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yC7HwPh6Es
Same as doctors are now asking about guns in your home. Dentists are now doing blood pressure tests. The last time I had my drivers' license renewed, I had to give my finger print. Banks are also requiring finger prints to cash a check. Too much Big Brother. I've said no to all but needing my license.
How about starting with drug testing for welfare recipients and see how that works.
Actually, in DC among Blacks between 15 and 55, the HIV infection rate is about 1 in 10.
But the government proposal isn’t to screen only inner city blacks or other high risk groups. It wants to screen every adult, and that’s the problem from a statistical and public policy standpoint.
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