{"id":438606,"date":"2010-03-17T11:33:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.jwatch.org\/hiv-id-observations\/?p=790"},"modified":"2010-03-17T11:33:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:33:43","slug":"this-one-drives-me%c2%a0crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/438606","title":{"rendered":"This One Drives Me\u00a0Crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"charliebrown-yellowkite\"In the debate over efforts to expand HIV testing by making it less “exceptional” and more like other important tests done in medical care — something I heartily endorse (no kidding) — comes one particular protest that\u00a0makes <\/em>absolutely no sense to me.<\/em><\/p>\n

It goes something like this:<\/p>\n

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We cannot expand HIV testing before guaranteeing that all newly-diagnosed people can get access to care.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

ARRGGGH!<\/em><\/p>\n

In what other disease do we make this stipulation?\u00a0 Would we stop recommending cancer or diabetes or hypertension screening in poor communities because there is no guarantee that\u00a0they will be “covered” if we find something?<\/p>\n

Look, the desire to get everyone access to care is laudable. \u00a0And we should plan for an increase in cases when testing expands, as has so impressively happened in Washington DC<\/a>. \u00a0But we’re hardly going to fix the whole health care system at the same time we change antiquated HIV testing laws.<\/p>\n

It’s especially ironic that this keeps coming up in HIV. \u00a0Is there another disease with so many safety nets in place for coverage as HIV\/AIDS?<\/p>\n

Some would argue –\u00a0I would<\/a> — that we have in HIV care a pretty impressive model for national health care.<\/p>\n

So let’s get that law changed already, ok?<\/p>\n

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In the debate over efforts to expand HIV testing by making it less “exceptional” and more like other important tests done in medical care — something I heartily endorse (no kidding) — comes one particular protest that\u00a0makes absolutely no sense to me. It goes something like this: We cannot expand HIV testing before guaranteeing that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}