Testing for HIV.
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Attitude of Health Care Professionals Towards Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV/AIDS
Introduction: HIV counseling and testing is the vital and preliminary interventional step aimed at reducing the spread of HIV infection. The study was designed to determine the attitude of health care professionals towards voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital. Materials & Methods: In this descriptive cross sectional prospective study a sel...
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A proposal has been made by R. Doll ("A proposal for doing prevalence studies of AIDS," British Medical Journal 1987 Feb 14; 294(6569): 244) to carry out anonymous screening for AIDS on blood samples taken in hospitals for other purposes. Gillon analyzes ethical objections to the proposal: (1) the testing--which constitutes nontherapeutic research--would be done without the patient's consent; ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.295.6612.1564-a