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HIV test 'by default'
HIV test on pregnant women may be made 'almost compulsory' in government hospitals soon.
This was one of the recommendations made for the five-year Aids programme in the state by the AP State Aids Control Society (Apsacs) project director G Ashok Kumar at a meeting of National Aids Control Organisation (Naco) held in Jaipur earlier this week.
"This is a kind of 'virtual compulsory testing' since Naco guidelines specify that one cannot be forced to take an HIV test by making it compulsory nor can it be done without the person's consent.
Such a system will directly ensure that all pregnant women are tested by default and at the same time gives them the option of 'not' getting it done," said Ashok Kumar."As of now we want to implement it in government hospitals and later extend it to the private medical institutions too."
Keeping in line with Apsacs' 0/7 campaign to make the state's children free of HIV/Aids, this new system of 'opt-out' HIV testing will prove beneficial.
"If women get to know during pregnancy that they are positive then it is still possible to prevent the child from turning positive using the right kind of medicines," said Dr J V D S Prasad, deputy director (anti-retrovial therapy centres), Apsacs. There are a total of 575 HIV testing centres in the state.
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