Hiv Infection Should Be Considered As Any Sexually Transmitted Disease

Hiv Infection Should Be Considered As Any Sexually Transmitted Disease.
A exploratory HIV testing program screened nearly 2,8 million Americans from 2007 to 2010 and identified 18432 individuals infected with the AIDS-causing virus, federal vigorousness officials said Thursday. Seventy-five percent of those newly diagnosed with HIV were referred to trim care, officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. "The target is to test, to connector to care and then to treat," said Dr Michael A Kolber, foreman of the Comprehensive AIDS Program at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

Testing is also important because once someone finds out they are infected with HIV they often variation their behavior. One of the main problems with testing is reaching those groups of mobile vulgus most at risk, including gay and bisexual men and African Americans, who do up the majority of new cases, the CDC said.

The new report said blacks accounted for 60 percent of those tested and 70 percent of the additional cases. Due to the program's success, the CDC has extended it. The intervention said that of the 1,2 million Americans living with HIV, 20 percent don't recognize they are infected.

And "Expanding testing is critical to domestic individuals receive life-extending treatment and protect the health of their partners," the CDC said. More HIV testing, uniquely in health-care settings, can help to identify more new cases.

This, in turn, can hero to earlier treatment with life-extending drugs, fewer deaths and reduced transmission of the virus, the medium said. Said Kolber: "We know that getting people started on antiretroviral psychoanalysis has an impact on disease progression".

He believes HIV infection should be treated like any sexually transmitted disease. "If you are sexually active, you should be tested frequently. If we did have it as a plumb test, adore any sexually transmitted disease test, we would probably pick up more people. The only way to counterfeit an epidemic such as this is to find everybody who has the disease and try to take care of them" vitamin. The late report is published in the June 24, 2011 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.