HIV and AIDS

Yesterday in class during PPR lesson, we had some discussions whether we should tell the spouse of the a gay who are HIV positive about his condition. We had few discussions agruments over patient's confidentiality vs protecting the partner from getting infected.

Today, in CNA report, it reports that CDC will inform spouses of partners who are HIV positive.

Quoted from Dr Balaji at an ethics seminar for doctors ,

"In future, a HIV Prevention Unit in the Ministry of

Health will deal with these conflicts of

duties in an objective manner."

Now under the new guidelines, doctors can order an HIV test for anyone who shows sign of infections and that a home- testing kits will soon be available to the public which will cost under $10. This is said to have 99.9% accuracy.