http://treatthepeople.com/article/universal-hiv-tests-would-have-big-impact-study/ Students against AIDS Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:24:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://treatthepeople.com/article/universal-hiv-tests-would-have-big-impact-study/#comment-1927 Karen Lee Wald Tue, 26 May 2009 20:25:18 +0000 http://treatthepeople.com/?p=810#comment-1927 How ironic that Cuba was vilified for many years for doing routine early testing (of pregnant women,people going in for surgery, those coming back from abroad, blood donors -- as well as the entire blood supply) although this clearly is one of the reasons Cuba has the lowest HIV/AIDS rate in the region, and perhaps in the world. (And contrary to what many opponents claimed, a Cuban could always choose not to be tested except in the case of blood donors, whose only choice if they didn't want their blood tested was to not donate -a reasonable requirement, I think, given the vast numbers of people who died from untested blood transfusions.) It would be helpful if this study could be replicated among homosexuals and bisexuals to see if it would also apply to that high risk population. How ironic that Cuba was vilified for many years for doing routine early testing (of pregnant women,people going in for surgery, those coming back from abroad, blood donors — as well as the entire blood supply) although this clearly is one of the reasons Cuba has the lowest HIV/AIDS rate in the region, and perhaps in the world. (And contrary to what many opponents claimed, a Cuban could always choose not to be tested except in the case of blood donors, whose only choice if they didn’t want their blood tested was to not donate -a reasonable requirement, I think, given the vast numbers of people who died from untested blood transfusions.)
It would be helpful if this study could be replicated among homosexuals and bisexuals to see if it would also apply to that high risk population.

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