AIDS Update 2012 21th Edition by Gerald Stine

Exercise 11

A universal approach to prevention could include early partner notification, risk-education counseling, comprehensive quality care, including mental health and substance abuse treatment, CD4 level monitoring and reporting, drug resistance monitoring, and mandatory HIV testing. As has recently been suggested by the CDC, it could also include routine HIV testing for those between ages 13 and 64, to allow population surveillance and treatment. Is this feasible on a global basis? Probably not. But it could be accomplished in the developed nations, especially the United States, if HIV/AIDS were treated like any other sexually transmitted disease. (CLASS DISCUSSION, PRO/CON.)