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Mandatory Testing
Harvard Heart Letter (21)9 2011
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Medicina Clínica (135)6 2010
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This study assessed the attitude of unmarried youths towards Mandatory Premarital HIV Testing (MPHT) in Ibadan Northwest Local Government Area. A three-stage sampling technique was used to select 571 unmarried youths from households. A validated questionnaire was used for the collection of the data....
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PMID: 20695141
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To determine the usefulness of a screening classification system in predicting treatment use, current substance abuse disorders (SUD), and driving over the alcohol limit (DOL) at 15-year follow-up.
Interviewed 583 driving while imparied (DWI) first offenders with SUDs. Univariate and multivariate st...
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PMID: 20604698
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Military Medicine (174)12 2009
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The discovery of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) infection in an individual who recently moved from a developmental center prompted the center to offer HIV testing to current and former residents. The guardians of 199 (93 percent) of the Center's current residents consented to testing. The...
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PMID: 19791542
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Saudi medical journal (30)4 2009
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Age range of subjects was 15-74, and most (38.4%) were between 25-29 years. Out of 1,332 individuals, 22 (1.7%) were HBsAg positive, 18 (1.4%) were anti-HBs positive, one (0.1%) was anti-HCV positive, one (0.1%) was HIV positive, and one (0.1%) was syphilis positive. There was no statistical differe...
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PMID: 19370284
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We used in-depth interviews with practitioners and an interpretive analytical approach to understand their decisions to conduct mandatory tests. While many in the public health community see mandatory testing as an unacceptable violation of patient autonomy, the practitioners widely regarded it as a...
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PMID: 19653588
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We review the early history of NBS in the USA and the evolution of CF NBS from its conception in observational studies, to the development of mass-screening methodology in the 1970s, and to its early applications in the USA and other countries. We review the development of current CF NBS algorithms,...
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PMID: 18821063
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The screening strategy currently in use in Colombia is more costly (in both the medium- and long-term), less effective, and less capable of prevention, than the universal screening strategy. The recommendation to the national health authorities of Colombia is to begin screening all pregnant women fo...
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PMID: 19133174
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Journal of Pediatrics (153)2 2008
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The centralized data analysis led to changes in the screening strategy to optimise the newborn screening program....
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PMID: 18534227
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We will first briefly mention some mandatory HIV premarital testing proposals, policies and practices worldwide, and offer a number of conceptual and factual distinctions to help distinguish different types of mandatory testing policies. Using premarital testing in Goma (Democratic Republic of Congo...
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PMID: 19143089
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Contemporary Nurse (30)1 2008
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A new funding instrument has been introduced into residential aged care known as the Aged Care Funding Instrument. As part of these requirements the assessment of depression for all residents admitted to an Australian aged care facility has been implemented using the Cornell Scale of Depression in D...
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PMID: 19072188
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HIV Medicine (9 Suppl 2) 2008
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We reviewed testing strategies across European countries. We show differences in policy and practices. Moreover, HIV testing strategies are changing, in line with new global guidelines issued by World Health Organization headquarters, and a number of countries are promoting an expansion of routine a...
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PMID: 18557864
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HIV Medicine (9 Suppl 2) 2008
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We can build an overall picture from the pieces of information available. We present a mathematical model of the course of infection and the effect of ART which has been developed to fit as closely as possible to observed data from HIV cohorts. The preliminary estimates for the entire WHO European R...
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PMID: 18557863
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HIV Medicine (9 Suppl 2) 2008
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We hope that consideration of the issues discussed in this supplement will help to shift the HIV field closer towards our ultimate goal: provision of optimal HIV testing and earlier care across the whole of the European region....
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PMID: 18557862
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HIV Medicine (9 Suppl 2) 2008
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HIV should preferably be diagnosed in its earlier stages. To optimize the chances of doing so, HIV testing in patients presenting with one of several indicator diseases and conditions is recommended. Patients presenting with tuberculosis and other AIDS-defining conditions should be tested. Patients...
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PMID: 18557871
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HIV Medicine (9 Suppl 2) 2008
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Our study shows that this non-confidential process can have serious social, economic and health consequences for the HIV-positive women and their children....
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PMID: 18576166
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The objective of this study is to assess the understanding of routine offer of HIV testing among women using antenatal care (ANC) services in a rural African district. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted in Murewa district, Zimbabwe, among women consecutively enrolled during their fir...
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PMID: 18576167
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We conducted an early and presymptomatic detection of WND using a novel automated assay of ceruloplasmin (Cp) concentration in urine and selected the mandatory medical health care examination for 3-year-old children in Hokkaido Prefecture (the largest administrative division in Japan) as a sampling...
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PMID: 18424137
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Revista de Saude Publica, Sao Paulo (42 Suppl 1) 2008
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The growth of intention of discrimination shows that information about ways of AIDS transmission and non-transmission still needs to be better planned and promoted, especially among populations that have lower level of education, live in the North/Northeast regions, are female and aged over 45 years...
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PMID: 18660927
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We review the design and application of STEPS and iPLEDGE and consider the ethical issues raised by the introduction of these programs. The goal is to eliminate birth defects caused by teratogenic agents, without making procedures so onerous that they result in restricted access to useful agents. Co...
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PMID: 18666392
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Nursing Ethics (15)2 2008
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The aim of this study was to assess the attitudes of Turkish pregnant women and antenatal health care providers towards prenatal HIV testing. A self-administered questionnaire was used. The relationships between the different groups' knowledge and attitudes were analysed by using the chi-squared sta...
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PMID: 18272612
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The study group consisted of 351 patients exposed to high numbers of blood products during their lifetime (median number of units transfused = 51, range 10-2086). A higher prevalence of transfusion-transmitted CD (1.30%) was observed among multitransfused patients that received their first transfusi...
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PMID: 18199334
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We present our case against the adoption of such a policy by discussing various social and medical issues. These include the limited population that such a policy would target given the early age of marriage in India; issues related to its implementation considering the low marriage registration rat...
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PMID: 18624155
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HIV counseling and testing is broadly considered a critical component of HIV transmission-prevention and treatment efforts. Given the severity of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, the potential societal benefit of testing is invoked to call for its massive expansion and to justify a shift fro...
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PMID: 18284041
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This article summarizes some important arguments for and against instituting a routine testing regimen for HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. After reviewing these competing positions and noting their areas of agreement and disagreement, the author recommends an alternative way to solve the main sticki...
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PMID: 18284042
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Occupational Medicine (57)8 2007
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All 15 NHS Boards responded: 87% (n = 13) had implemented the guidance with partial implementation in the remaining boards. While 87% required identified and validated samples (IVS), no consistent method was reported for how results from an IVS were recorded. There was also no consensus as to the du...
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PMID: 18000022
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Swiss medical weekly : official journal of the Swiss Society of Infectious Diseases, the Swiss Society of Internal Medicine, the Swiss Society of Pneumology (137)43-44 2007
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Hepatology (46)4 2007
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We provided free HBV serological screening and administered a survey to 3163 Asian American adult volunteers in the San Francisco Bay Area between 2001 and 2006. Of those screened, 8.9% were chronically infected with HBV. Notably, one-half to two-thirds (65.4%) of the chronically infected adults wer...
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PMID: 17654490
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Information was obtained from all EU Member States with the exception of Cyprus and Luxembourg. Eighteen countries issued a national policy with regard to antenatal HIV screening, 16 opted for a system in which HIV testing is offered to all women attending antenatal services while only two opted for...
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PMID: 17875579
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The Robert Koch Institute collects and evaluates data on the prevalence and incidence of HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), hepatitis B (HBV) and syphilis infections among blood and plasma donors in Germany according to article 22 of the Transfusion Act. The surveillance data permit an assessment of the occurr...
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PMID: 17924066
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The newborn screening programme started in Brazil (1976) through isolated initiatives, without governmental directions and/or policies. According to Health Ministry (2000) data the coverage was 55% and unevenly distributed. Only 17 out of 27 Brazilian states had more than 30% coverage. Public budget...
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PMID: 17694357
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Qatar is a country in the Gulf area and member of the Gulf Cooperation Council states. The country is populated by original Qatari tribes that amount to about 200,000 people and about 600,000 expatriates mainly from Arabic and Asian countries. Inbreeding over centuries and high rates of consanguinit...
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PMID: 17510756
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The objective of this report is to determine the need for and value of the long-term follow-up study of phenylketonuria (PKU) patients detected by newborn screening (NBS) in Japan. NBS was started in 1977 and the nationwide follow-up study of the identified patients was introduced into the NBS syste...
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PMID: 17641826
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We ask, in the light of the new rapid tests for HIV, such as OraQuick, and the development of antiretroviral treatment that can reduce maternal-fetal transmission rates to <2%, whether that time is now. Illustrating our argument with cases from the United States (US), Kenya, Peru, and an undocumente...
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PMID: 17614994
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We strive to maintain the success of newborn screening in the 21st century....
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PMID: 17679658
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Health-care providers in China are facing an exponential increase in HIV testing and HIV-positive patients. A total of 1101 service providers were recruited to examine attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in China. Logistic regression models were used to assess factors associated wit...
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PMID: 17623506
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In December 2006, the Mandatory Blood Testing Act, 2006 passed third reading in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. When this new Act comes into force, it will replace the existing administrative system for forced blood testing, currently operating under Ontario's public health law. Responsibility...
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PMID: 17715523
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AIDS policy & law (22)4 2007
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The prevalence of HIV infection among individuals referred from faith-based organizations (FBOs) in south-eastern Nigeria for mandatory pre-marital HIV screening was determined. Of the total of 319 individuals (148 males, 171 females) screened, 25 (7.8%, 95%CI: 4.9-10.7%) were confirmed HIV-positive...
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PMID: 17129866
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Nursing Times (103)24 2007
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In the 5 years after the adoption of state-mandated HIV testing in Connecticut, 33% of HIV-positive pregnant women in the state were newly diagnosed during their pregnancy. Women who first learned that they were HIV-infected during pregnancy comprised of a unique group of people tested, in essence,...
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PMID: 17889323
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Editor's note: The study by Simpson and Forsyth published in this issue of JANAC is an evaluation of women's reactions to Connecticut Public Act 99-2, which established mandatory HIV testing for pregnant women in the state. Manuscript reviewers requested further information about the legislation. Th...
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PMID: 17889324
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We describe and analyze these challenges through consideration of 3 disorders: phenylketonuria, medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, and cystic fibrosis....
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PMID: 16571691
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Das Gesundheitswesen (68)11 2006
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In 1994, almost all clients of the department for venereal disease control were female prostitutes. 74% of them worked in established sex business venues with a high grade of professionalism, few STD cases were diagnosed. In 2004, the STD clinic was open for anybody considered to be at risk and not...
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PMID: 17199202
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Refugees, as forced migrants, have suffered displacement under conditions not of their own choosing. In 2000 there were thought to be 22 million refugees of whom 6 million were HIV positive. While the New Zealand government has accepted a number of HIV positive refugees from sub-Saharan Africa, this...
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PMID: 17100006
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The AIDS reader (16)8 2006
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