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East Texas Health Organization Sees Increase In HIV Cases
August 15th, 2010
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Officials at an East Texas health care organization, Health Horizons, which provides HIV testing and other services to people in 12 counties, “has seen more East Texans test positive for [HIV] so far this year than it did for all of 2008,” the Lufkin Daily News reports. Executive Director Wilbert Brown said, “We’ve had eight people out of more than 800 test positive for HIV in the first seven months of this year. Most of those have been African-American men. Last year we had a total of six out of more than 1,000. I expect us to see two or three more positives before the year is out. The state average for testing positive is one in 100, and we’re getting close to that number.” According to the article, “Brown said he attributes the increase to Health Horizon’s aggressive outreach program targeting high-risk groups and to people realizing the importance of getting tested.” The Daily News article also profiles a client of Health Horizons (Cooley, 8/2)
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Opinion Columns Urge HIV Testing
August 01st, 2010
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“To have the greatest impact on HIV infection, let persons who are frequently exposed to HIV have an easy way to protect others, by finding out quickly that they are infected,” from rapid self-administered HIV tests, Mary Jane Rotheram, Arleen Leibowitz and Kevin Farrell - researchers at the Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatments Services at UCLA - write in a Atlanta Journal-Constitution opinion piece. “To date, the FDA has required a third party to administer and/or interpret the HIV test results. Perhaps these policies reflect pressure from groups with vested interests in maintaining the status quo: laboratories, community-based HIV testing sites or pharmaceutical agencies,” the authors write. They continue, “To make HIV testing more accessible, cheaper and less stigmatized, we endorse wide availability of HIV rapid tests …” for consumers (8/24).
“[W]hen it comes to testing, recent research shows men are lagging behind women,” including being tested for sexually transmitted diseases, Jason Fiume of 13WHAM.com writes in a blog. He continues, “Recently on 13 WHAM News at 5, we shared the findings of a new study that found too much ‘macho’ persona could cut a man’s life short” and this “research can also help explain why men are slacking in STD testing.” That “‘macho’ mentality … highlights the need for more regular testing,” according to the blog (8/25).
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A bill proposed by Washington, D.C., council member Marion Barry (D), which “has been stalled in committee since July,” would mandate HIV testing and counseling for all district jail inmates upon admission, the Washington Post reports. Since 2006, the district has administered “voluntary HIV tests to all inmates upon admission, although they can opt out,” and “99 percent, or more than 27,000, inmates have opted to take the test, according to the Department of Corrections,” the newspaper reports. Walter Smith, executive director of D.C. Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Corrections Director Devon Brown and HIV/AIDS Administration Director Shannon Hader all oppose mandatory testing, according to the article. “Twenty-one states test inmates for HIV when they are admitted to prison, according to the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. But most states test only with an inmate’s consent or upon court order” (Ricard, 8/30).
This information was reprinted from dailyreports.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily U.S. HIV/AIDS Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at dailyreports.kff.org.
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