Experts Urge Routine HIV Tests for All

Associated Press ^ | February 9, 2005 | Linda A. Johnson

[Publius6961]

Experts...
Some Health experts...

Hmmmmmmm.

How many?
Are all three of them Gay advocates?
Do they all embrace the "AIDS is a threat to heterosexuals" propaganda?
Before getting into specifics, I would want the answer to these questions before rejecting, wholesale, their basic premise.

[TASMANIANRED]

One of the studies, by researchers at Duke and Stanford universities and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, estimated that routine one-time testing of everyone would cut new infections each year by just over 20 percent, and that every HIV-infected patient identified would gain an average of 1 1/2 years of life.

Total crock. The bug chasers and IV drug users will keep right on doing exactly what they did to contract it.

[cripplecreek]

No thank you. I am not in a high risk category so there is no need of testing me. It would only be a waste of time and money.

[Mark was here]

What a crock of crud.

I say if you do not want the test the government should pay you the cost of the test in cash.

[mlbford2]

This is BS. What they really want to say is: If you are a drug user or an idiot homo who bangs dudes without a condom because you are so high on meth, please go take a drug test.

I can assure you, most of the folks I know do not need an HIV test.

[EagleUSA]

This is interesting and perplexing. These people are all running around talking about screening many people...BUT TO WHAT END??? What are they trying to accomplish? Just building another big medical bureaucracy? Again, to what end? You have AIDS, now what? Do they shoot you, or send you off to some penal colony in the South Pacific or strap you into some device so you cannot spread the desease? Or to force you into some "treatment" program that can niether afford or want??

What is the end goal here?

[Publius6961]

Ah... computer models.
The garbage in-garbage out argument?

[rocksblues]

I don't see why an aids test shouldn't be included in the routine workups you get when a doctor sends you for a screening. Given the fact that they check for all the other sexually transmitted diseases as a matter of course!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Yep. This smells big time.

[Toidylop]

Bernard Goldberg's Bias:" Aids problem will destroy America by 2000..."

still waiting...

[longtermmemmory]

"some experts"? is this the same as the MSM saying "some say" when asking a question at a white house briefing?

The routine testing is a matter of conditioning in order to get the public in general assimilated into the STD lifestyle. Routine testing is an absurd waste of resources in the no risk groups like pre-teen children and older married people.

NOTE, I am saying ROUTINE testing.

This is not about aids prevention, this is about junk science being used to indoctrinate and keep the federal dollars flowing to the aids industry.

(even the MSM says aids babies are for all practical purposes no more.)

[coconutt2000]

send you off to some penal colony in the South Pacific

Please pick another damned ocean to set up your penal colony... :-)

[Toidylop]

Oops... forgot... According to Dan Rather!!!

[mlmr]

This is a good idea as soon as the HIV test becomes a normal test, without all the drama of pre test counseling, post test counseling and hyperprivacy issues.

[cripplecreek]

"NOTE, I am saying ROUTINE testing."


Understood. My wife and I were both tested by our own choice before we got married. We have both been faithful. Neither one of us is an IV drug user or have received a blood transfusion. However we did share a needle a few months back when we were both sick and she brought us some antibiotics. She brought two needles home but one was junk.

[microgood]

A failure to institute such screening at doctors' offices and clinics would be "a critical disservice" to patients with the AIDS virus and "the future health of the nation," wrote Bozzette, who is from the University of California at San Diego and the Rand Corp. think tank in Santa Monica, Calif.

I will bet this guy has stock in some company that will benefit from this. Follow the money.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"The cost-benefit to individuals and society is worth" widespread screening, said Dr. Lawrence Deyton, chief of public health in the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides medical care to about 5 million veterans. In light of the findings, he said the VA is going to urge more patients to get tested. "We're going to take the ball and run with it," Deyton said.

I'm retired Army and I was HIV tested like ALL THE TIME, starting back in the 80's when they started noticing that lots of civilians were getting this. What's this "take the ball and run with it" stuff? The military tests people for HIV more than any other group of people I've ever heard of.

In all those years, I processed ONE medical discharge for someone with HIV. One.

[southronbtgoG]

Glad my number is 300,439,892

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I think its just another way to move aids into the acceptable normal mainstream.. then they can pretend that getting aids was "normal" and caused by normal behavior.