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Time to move on from AIDS case reporting

Positive Living article • Adrian Ogier • 13 March 2009

Despite rapid changes in HIV treatment over the last decade, current surveillance regulations still require doctors to notify the Department of Health when they come across a case of AIDS.

As well as placing an unnecessary burden on clinicians, development of AIDS is now a rather infrequent and generally reversible event, claims John Kaldor, professor at the National Centre in HIV EpidemiologyThe branch of medical science that deals with the study of incidence and distribution and control of a disease in a population. and ClinicalPertaining to or founded on observation and treatment of participants, as distinguished from theoretical or basic science. Research.

Instead we need more thorough accounting of the health progress of people with HIV, notes NAPWA’s Health, Treatments and Research Coordinator, Peter Canavan.

Kaldor and his colleagues have proposed that wealthy countries, where HIV positive people have access to treatments, should now focus on enhancing their HIV case-reporting systems.

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