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Perspectives on the ethical concerns and justifications of the 2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HIV testing: HIV screening policy changes

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Title
Perspectives on the ethical concerns and justifications of the 2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention HIV testing: HIV screening policy changes
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BMC Medical Ethics, November 2013
DOI 10.1186/1472-6939-14-46
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Michael J Waxman, Roland C Merchant, M Teresa Celada, Melissa A Clark

Abstract

The 2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised recommendations for HIV testing in clinical settings contained seven specific changes to how health care facilities should provide HIV testing. These seven elements have been both supported and challenged in the lay and medical literature. Our first paper in BMC Medical Ethics presented an analysis of the three HIV testing procedural changes included in the recommendations. In this paper, we address the four remaining elements that concern HIV screening policy changes: (1) nontargeted HIV screening, (2) making HIV screening similar to screening for other treatable conditions, (3) increasing HIV screening without assured additional funding for linkage to care, and (4) making patients bear the costs of increased HIV screening in health care settings.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 30 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 20%
Student > Master 4 13%
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 7%
Other 5 17%
Unknown 8 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 7%
Social Sciences 2 7%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 8 27%
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