[DTwistedSisterS]

Uh.... no.

[taxed2death]

as an added benefit.... they can let the insurance companies know what our DNA make-up is... so they can deny services based on our genetic make-up.

Where do I sign up!

[nmh]

Ridiculous!

There is NO CURE for aids. It's just MORE government meddling in your PERSONAL life. What they ALWAYS conveniently forget is that MANY are not the promiscuous folks they want you to believe.

This is just more unwanted privacy invasion and giving kids ANOTHER REASON to believe that YOU WILL BE DOING IT AND we'll help you with the fallout - AIDS.

[Abathar]

I'm all for it as long as they discreetly tattoo the ones who test positive in a place that is easily concealable but their partners and health care workers would find them.

[edcoil]

I don't think we should pay for this. HIV is a blood transferred disease whose cause and transmission is fairly limited.

This makes it appear any American has the same chance of getting it as someone else and will cost a fortune.

[PissAndVinegar]

ARGH!!
"through prevention services, learn how to avoid transmitting HIV infection to others,"

Is there anyone in this day and age the DOESN'T know how its transmitted?!?

"They said the guidelines could help end the stigma of HIV testing"

The stigma is not the testing, its about having a preventable, self inflicted disease. There are very few who get HIV by actions not their own anymore.
This is pure homosexual agenda, trying to get everyone else to accept their lifestyle and diseases (and no I'm not saying AIDS is a homo-only thing)

[tumblindice]

The feds are starting to believe their own propaganda: "We all have AIDS."
Noooo, it's still pretty much the hypes and Mens Fitness subscribers. Test them, Mr. Goobermint Man in White Coat.

[twigs]

Insurance companies no doubt want this. And they want the results available in a database to which they have access.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

They've been saying this for over 20 years.

Why is this news now?

[Joe Boucher]

And I want the feds and state and local govt. to stay the hell out of my business.

Also it is no my responsibility to pay for others hiv tests or anything wlse for that matter.

Hey big f-ing govt. quit spending MY MONEY.

[Wolfie]

For quarantine purposes, certainly. But we know that ain't what its for.

[kemathen7]

Some quick math ... they estimate 250,000 HIV diagnosises. Soooo ... 250,000 divided by the US population (approx 300 mill, according to CIA world factbook) = .000845. Barely a measureable number. Not worth the taxpayer dollars at all.

[wbill]

In other words, "There aren't enough people with the disease out there to justify all of our funding, and we need to find some more."

Wonder what the false positive rate on the test is....

[oldleft]

CALM DOWN!

All they're doing is RECOMMENDING testing, the same way you get tested for TB. The military already tests everyone.

[mvpel]

Follow the money - HIV tests are rather expensive, as we learned during the process of a Russian adoption. Who manufactures the tests and testing equipment, and to whom have they made campaign contributions?

[freekitty]

Forget about it.

[Wuli]

HIV infection can be a death sentence; even when the time of death is greatly delayed by modern medicine.

States should make it a crime to spread the HIV virus, period.

That should be based soley on someone with HIV infecting someone else with HIV, whether the one who infected the other knew they had HIV or not. Because, even if they had HIV and did not know it, then they behaved recklessly, negligently by first knowingly having unprotected sex (or sharing drug needles) and not following up with an HIV test afterwards, and then going on to have unprotected sex (or sharing needles) again with someone else.

If persons who do this knew they could be prosecuted if they passed the HIV virus by negligent behavior, knowingly or not (because it is negligent not to know), then all kinds of negligent sexual behavior would go out of favor over night.

There was a time when this kind of view helped end the extent to which negligent sexual behaviors had made syphillus a major disease (carried for many years and then passed to a new spouse). People getting a marriage license had to present a blood test.

[PLK]

Follows on the heels of the recommendation that ALL adolescent girls receive the genital warts vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. All this is an effort to make us all "equal."

Dontcha know that ANYONE can come down with cervical cancer and AIDS? Sheesh ... must be in the air or sumthin.

[Billthedrill]

I'll offer a compromise - I promise to get checked after every night of wild anonymous passive anal bathhouse sex I have. Yes, I realize that's a lot of testing...

Seriously, it doesn't hurt to get tested as a part of a regular physical but it's an extra expense for a low-risk population. If you're a health-care professional subject to needle sticks or a recent transfusion recipient or anything else that might change that low-risk status you'd be silly not to be tested, IMHO.

[fml]

No