Contact Tracing and the Control of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

Rutherford, George W.; Woo, Jean M.

doi:10.1001/jama.1988.03720240071038

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“…While there is still a debate about contact tracing for the HIV infection [4,15] the resurgence of infectious tuberculosis and outbreaks of drug-resistant tuberculosis secondary to HIV induced inmunodepression is forcing many public health departments to reexamine this policy [2,7]. A model of the HIV epidemic allowing for contact tracing would help evaluate the effect of this method of control on the size of the HIV epidemic.…”

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Modeling HIV Epidemic under Contact Tracing — The Cuban Case

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Lounes

Hoang

et al. 1999

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

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Modeling HIV Epidemic under Contact Tracing — The Cuban Case

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Lounes

Hoang

et al. 1999

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

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“…35-37 Although American data were sparse, a 1972 British review published at about the same time the Syphilis Study was being closed estimated, “That efficient contact tracing lowers the rate of venereal disease by about 20 per cent.” 38 After that, contact tracing continued as the reference standard for sexually transmitted disease control, as exemplified by the US Guide to Community Preventive Services and the American Public Health Association’s Control of Communicable Diseases Manual. 39,40 …”

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Tuskegee Redux: Evolution of Legal Mandates for Human Experimentation

Levine¹,

Williams²,

Kilbourne³

et al. 2012

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Human health experiments systematically expose people to conditions beyond the boundaries of medical evidence. Such experiments have included legal-medical collaboration, exemplified in the US by the PHS Syphilis Study (Tuskegee). That medical experiment was legal, conforming to segregationist protocols and specific legislative authorization which excluded a selected group of African Americans from any medical protection from syphilis. Subsequent corrective action outlawed unethical medical experiments but did not address other forms of collaboration, including PHS submission to laws which may have placed African American women at increased risk from AIDS and breast cancer. Today, anti-lobbying law makes it a felony for PHS workers to openly question legally anointed suspension of medical evidence. African Americans and other vulnerable populations may thereby face excess risks -- not only from cancer, but also from motor vehicle crashes, firearm assault, end stage renal disease and other problems -- with PHS workers as silent partners.

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“…PNP was demonstrated to be effective in containing the spread of HIV, targeting risk reduction education to the seropositive persons and their partners, identifying unknowingly infected partners who could not be reached by other acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) awareness program, 2.3, 4) and leading to beneficial early medical intervention5) . Although there are some debates on effectiveness 6,7,8)of this program in a few studies, there seems to be enough evidences accumulated showing the efficiency of PNP 9). For example, a study from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention found that PNP saves twenty dollars by expending one dollar lo) Many other studies, conducted in different countries also demonstrated that PNP was cost-effective strategy 4.11.12.13).…”

Section: Immunodeficiencymentioning

confidence: 99%