The standard protocol when diagnosing a patient with HIV or AIDS involves contac
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The standard protocol when diagnosing a patient with HIV or AIDS involves contacting the patient's previous sexual partners to notify them of their exposure to the disease. This allows the patient's sexual partners the opportunity to be tested. How does this standard practice affect the gathering of incidence and prevalence rates for HIV/AIDS? Do you agree or disagree with the protocol and why? If changes were made to the protocol to assist in data gathering, what changes would you suggest and why?
Explanation / Answer
The protocol for diagnosing HIV or AIDS increase the chances of gathering information about incidence and prevalence rates if the patients provide the information about their actual partners.
Most of the people hesitate to take HIV test because they concern about their confidentiality and they think that their names will be reported to certain agencies. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed in 1996, which established several privacy rules and regulations for healthcare professionals about the patient confidentially. The healthcare professionals responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of HIV patients.
Unique identifiers help to avoid this problem, patients feel much more confident and believe that the chances of discrimination due to their HIV status are reduced. So, it is important to ensure the maintenance of anonymous status of the patient and it must be a part of standard protocol.
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