ArticleJournal of health politics, policy and law2009
HIV testing, human rights, and global AIDS policy: exceptionalism and its discontents.
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- Provider-Initiated HIV Testing for Migrants in Spain: A Qualitative Study with Health Care Workers and Foreign-Born Sexual Minorities.PloS one · 2016Article
- Implementation and Operational Research: The Effectiveness of Routine Opt-Out HIV Testing for Children in Harare, Zimbabwe.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2016Article
- Measuring self-reported HIV status in bio-behavioural surveys.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2015Article
- "Students want HIV testing in schools" a formative evaluation of the acceptability of HIV testing and counselling at schools in Gauteng and North West provinces in South Africa.BMC public health · 2015Article
- Ethical considerations of providers and clients on HIV testing campaigns in Burkina Faso.BMC international health and human rights · 2014Article
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- Implementing a provider-initiated testing and counselling (PITC) intervention in Cape town, South Africa: a process evaluation using the normalisation process model.Implementation science : IS · 2013Article
- HIV testing and care in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda: ethics on the ground.BMC international health and human rights · 2013Review
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- From caution to urgency: the evolution of HIV testing and counselling in Africa.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2012Review
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Abstract
Two years ago, in May 2007, UNAIDS and WHO issued new guidelines on HIV testing. Prepared to meet the demands of the AIDS pandemic and the prospects of extending the benefits of antiretroviral therapy to regions where such treatment had been all but out of reach, the new guidance was the product of an extended period of sometimes acrimonious controversy both within the two UN agencies and globally. Those pressing for change had argued that a paradigm of testing that had emerged at a time when little could be done for those infected with HIV was inappropriate to the current moment. Those who viewed with skepticism, if not hostility, the claims that current practice and stringent ethical standards had become an impediment to effectively confronting the challenge of AIDS saw in the proposed changes a threat to the bedrock ethical principles of informed consent. In the end, of course, decisions about HIV testing will be taken by nation - states, with the recommendations of international organizations constituting but one element, however important, that will shape policy. Nevertheless, an examination of the history and the dynamics of the recent controversy and its outcome will provide a unique resource to those faced with policy choices; it will also provide a unique opportunity to lay bare the complex and politically charged relationships evolving between public health and human rights.
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