HIV name reporting not lowering test rates.HIV reporting HIV reporting Public health The reporting of a person's HIV status to state health authorities. See AIDS, HIV surveillance, Notifiable disease. and notification laws in New York have not deterred residents from seeking testing and counseling services, according to an April AJPH AJPH American Journal of Public Health AJPh American Journal of Philology study. In surveys of about 760 residents, including men who have sex with men Men who have sex with men (MSM) is a term used mostly in the United States to classify men who engage in sex with other men, regardless of whether they self-identify as gay, bisexual, or heterosexual. , injection drug users and heterosexuals who practice high-risk behaviors, most were not aware of New York's name-based HIV reporting law and more than half reported that their last HIV test took place after the law was enacted in 2000. While there had been concern that name-based reporting would deter testing, researchers found that few respondents cited the law as a reason to avoid or delay testing. Also, HIV testing levels and post-test counseling rates have not been affected by the reporting law, the study found. "The surveillance benefits associated with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. name-based reporting are not being offset by unfavorable changes in HIV testing behaviors," the authors wrote. (Page 728) |
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