Aids Test For Everyone !
The CDC would like everyone aged 13 to 64 be tested for the aids virus at least once, when they go to the doctors office.
I have very mixed feelings about this. We all would like to wipe out this disease, as it has become the fourth leading cause of death in the world. The main reason for this “law”, is that they say right now, most people who get the test, get it because they believe they are at risk for it. Before you can get the test at a doctors office, you must go through pretest counseling, which tells you how to prevent getting it and what to do once you test positive. They would like to make it easier for people by doing away with the counseling. I’m not sure that makes much sense, but that is what they say the reason is.
I wonder once the test is done, if the person tests positive,what the government will do with this information. The other thing is, is that what possible good will one test do? Let’s say you test a fourteen year old. The CDC requirement is met, and the fourteen year old has the next forty years to acquire the virus without mandatory testing.
I don’t have the correct answer, but this seems like a waste of someone’s money.
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Aren’t the majority of deaths of AIDS in Africa?
I could see making a case for this there.
But here in the US, where the infection rate is relatively so small, it seems a bit overkill.
They should also make lung cancer, diabetes & heart disease tests mandatory. (that would actually save more lives here than a mandatory AIDS test!)