Sunday, June 28, 2009

should or should not HIV/AIDS be declared as a notifiable disease

should or should not HIV/AIDS be declared as a notifiable disease?
I want reason why it should or should not be declare as notifiable disease.
Infectious Diseases - 3 Answers
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IT SHOULD BE DECLARED AS NOTIFIABLE DISEASE . IT IS A CONTAGIOUS SO IT MUST DECLARED AS ONE .
2 :
It should be declared as a notifiable disease. It's extremely contagious and causes death in most, if not all cases after progressing into AIDS.
3 :
It is notifiable in most states. It is not extremely contagious. It is very hard to get HIV, unless you share certain body fluids, not even all of them ( like saliva or urine do not transmit it). And even then it's not a high transmission rate, like chicken pox or flu. Most people with AIDS do not die if they take medicines. But it is reported because of the public health implications, the higher the number of AIDS cases, the worse the state's public health looks ( as in why didn't the patients get medicine before converting to AIDS. Ideally should help to distribute funding, as it should be a priority, but unfortunately funding this year has been cut dramatically yo the point that in the most affected states there's no money for medicines...

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