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18 Grudzie 2009
Singapore Ministry Of Health Calls On More Physicians To Offer Anonymous Rapid HIV Tests
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Singapores Ministry of Health recently called on more seclusive normal practitioners in the mother country to provide anonymous rapid HIV tests, which currently are nearby only at two clinics, the Straits Times reports.

According to the constitution ministry, it has invited 70 physicians to give anonymous high-speed tests in order to up its network of clinics contribution anonymous testing and encourage people at risk of the virus to undergo testing. The two clinics currently donation anonymous impetuous tests have reported that they have seen 2.5 times more people fall in against the investigation recently. According to the clinics, 1,723 people underwent anonymous lightning-fast testing between July 2007 and June 2008, compared with 678 who did so between July 2006 and June 2007. Sixteen of the 1,723 people who were tested were diagnosed with HIV (Tan, Straits Times, 7/19).

According to Singapores Today, the increase in testing could be attributed to HIV/AIDS awareness generated by the county media. About 60% of respondents to a get a birds eye view of by the biomedical company Rockeby, which distributes the test, said they learned of it from newspapers. More nonprofessionals also are coming up to be tested, Today reports. Tan Sze Wee, Rockeby managing concert-master and chief executive, said, Its not decent the educated who are going for the tests, but the message has gone down to the [less]-educated. In addition, the host of nonmarried individuals and women undergoing testing has increased. Only-third of all patients said they went for testing because it was both anonymous and fast, and the part of people receiving the test since the first without surcease increased from 65% to 74% (Leng, Today, 7/18).

Wong Tien Hua, a physician at Shared Healthcare Medical Clinic in Anchorvale who received the health ministrys invitation to take measures the evaluation, said making anonymous tests more universally accessible could remove barriers associated with people finding out about their HIV status, especially for populations involved in high-hazard activities. Joyce Liang of Anteh Dispensary, which is one of the two clinics that currently offers the check up on, said, It is usually the stress of the respite as regards results that kills them, figuratively speaking. Here, they had to wait someone is concerned simply 20 minutes. Of course, they have to be counseled post-test.

According to the Times, 422 people in Singapore were diagnosed with HIV mould year, up from 357 in 2006. Numbers seeing that this year as of June indicated that 236 people have been diagnosed as HIV-positive (Straits Times, 7/19).