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Week 7 Discussion Forum

The standard protocol when diagnosing a patient with HIV or AIDS involves contacting the patient’s previous sexual partners to notify them of their exposure to the disease. This allows the patient’s sexual partners the opportunity to be tested. How does this standard practice affect the gathering of incidence and prevalence rates for HIV/AIDS? Do you agree or disagree with the protocol and why? If changes were made to the protocol to assist in data gathering, what changes would you suggest and why?

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  Contacting the previous sexual partners of patients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS for notifying them of their possibility exposure towards the disease is an important aspect towards data gathering of HIV/AIDS incidence and prevalence rates. The most simple and basic approach for knowing HIV/AIDS incidence rates is for individuals to get tested voluntarily; however, contact tracing of sexual partners increases the chances of gathering more data. In this view, tracing of sexual partners enables the greater understanding and identifying of possible incidences of HIV/AIDS

This question is taken from PH 530 – Managerial Epidemiology » Summer 2021 » Discussion