Sunday, April 20, 2008

What would you do if your mate knowingly infected you with HIV/AIDS

What would you do if your mate knowingly infected you with HIV/AIDS?
I just read this article about this situation and the man only got 8 yrs for his crime. And they didn't say anything about the victim feeling any justice. I myself would not be satisfied with 8yrs. I might seriously murder someone if they knowingly infected me with HIV/AIDS. That's a death sentence for them sooner that what AIDS gave them. The world is really screwed when you have people infecting you on purpose because they was irresponsible with sex. Life is Crazy!
STDs - 6 Answers
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Uh... dont have pre-marital sex... Uh... wear protection... I think this person should have a smaller sentence. Clearly both people are immoral in my perspective.
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i would kill them. that's unforgiveable.
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"File charges at the nearest County Court Clerk." "That's it. Sex Life is over."
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If they did so knowingly, then you should not be with them any longer. The most likely person to give you HIV is someone who does not know they have it in the first place. This is why you should err on the side of assuming that everyone you have sex with may have HIV and you should be protected. I understand the feeling of outrage and I have no sympathy for someone who is prepared to be reckless with another person's health. However, as a matter of public policy criminalising the transmission of HIV is not a good idea. There are public health consequences. In the developed world the worst symptom of the disease is the stigma that is attached to it and in all places stigma makes it spread. Stigmatising those who have the disease is dangerous. People become reluctant to get tested. In fact if they are positive, they can have a near normal life provided they get treatment quickly and adhere to it. The best way to fight the pandemic is to take precautions, which means safe sex only. Encourage people to get tested and make sure that hiv positive people are treated. Very few people can say that they have never done something that could have lead to them getting HIV. Empathy and sympathy is more effective than revenge. Stay safe.
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Um "murder them"? Theyre already going to suffer a horrible death in 10 yrs anyway. 20yrs tops.
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First off having medical coverage is not going to insure the fact that you'll stay alive depending on what stage its at taking medicine might not even help... but I can honestly say that i really don't know how i would react or feel for that matter. I would be hurt but i don't know if i could solely blame someone else for the mistake that we made together. I mean no one would honestly be able to say that they didn't give their partner the advantage of infecting them...

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

If you work in a hospital is there an exception stating if you have HIV/AIDS it must be disclosed

If you work in a hospital is there an exception stating if you have HIV/AIDS it must be disclosed?
If you work in a hospital is there an exception stating if you have HIV/AIDS it must be disclosed? As I understand this does not have to be disclosed by the carrier in the workplace, are there any exceptions to this rule? For instance would a doctor or a nurse need to disclose this condition if they had it, or would they fall under the umbrella of non-disclosure like other jobs?
Law & Ethics - 2 Answers
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they can test you for drugs, they might also see if you have other problems
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In general, the medical professionals (those who interact with patients) in a hospital must disclose any potential hazards to the hospitals risk management team, which may set restrictions on procedures or additional precautionary measures. Patients may not necessarily be notified unless the situation creates a significant risk factor over normal operations.

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Is there any conclusive study to prove that sex education of school kids reudces the incidence of HIV-AIDS

Is there any conclusive study to prove that sex education of school kids reudces the incidence of HIV-AIDS?
There is too much hype abaout the desirability of having sex education in school kids to protect them from HIV-AIDS. However, I have not found a single study on the internet that actually proves that sex education amongst school kids actually reduces the incidence of HIV -AIDS. Results of a few studies only are in the nature of baseles conclusions and conjectures. Can anyone give me referencs of studies that PROVE any causal relationship between sex education in children and the incidence of HIV-AIDS?
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im not going to look for a study, youd be hard pressed to argue that increasing awareness of a preventable disease will not reduce transmission. think of some diseases they dont talk about in school. if you arent in the healthcare field, how much do you know about them and what needs to be done to prevent them? do you know as much about hiv as you do hepatitis A? how about type 2 diabetes which is an 80-90% preventable disease, that affects something like 5-10% of american adults nowadays? transmission has slowed quite a bit in the US due to increased awareness (whtehr that be from school or other educational exposure) while it is the same or increasing in places like africa where people dont know anything about it
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Indeed. Although sex education has helped, it is pitiful compared to what is being done in Europe. In Lousiana, I had sex ed during the "pilot" year of the sex ed program (I believe it was 1990). It was pitiful. We could NOT mention birth control methods or "abortion" *gasp*!!! Really, what good is sex ed if you can't talk about that? I then had sex ed in Belgium in a Catholic school run by priests. These priests pulled out all the stops and told these kids what "sex" was. I still have this image in my head of the priest unwrapping a condom, and fitting it onto the anatomically correct model of a man's erect penis for us all to see. Talk about culture shock. However, it was what the government had specified in the education guidelines for us, and that is what the priests taught us!
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Most of the studies won't single out one disease - like HIV which is fairly rare in the US and among the teen population. There are studies though that find that safe sex practices (ie. condoms) reduce the spread of HIV worldwide. Actually there are studies that prove the opposite is true. -- Lack of comprehensive sex ed increases the rates of STDs in teenagers. A big study just came out that looked at the last few years of sex ed in the US - a sex ed that primarily stresses abstinance and at the rates of beginning of sexual intercourse (age) and the std rates. The study found that the abstinence only education had NO effect on either of these. We know that comprehensive sex ed reduces STD rates, so if you don't have comprehensive sex ed, the rates tend to go up. One recent study found in the US that 1 in 4 girls have or have had some type of STD - this is in a country that stresses abstinence only education. If teens are not learning how to protect themselves from disease, then they are not going to be able to protect themselves. The CDC has a lot of information about safe sex and statistics - I highly recommend that you search through their website. In addition, I use a library database (maybe with help from the librarian) that can search through medical journal articles for information - try searching for STD education in western europe -they provide a lot of sex ed and have fairly low STD rates

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