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This post was published on 15/02/08 in Ideology and HIV, Pisani's picks.

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  1. Comment by mark, 15/02/08, 07:41:

    ummm… should title read “c o n t a c t”? rather than “contract”? or is this some sort of clever sex industry thing. “we had an oral contract… if you know what i mean…”

  2. Comment by O Rall, 16/02/08, 02:07:

    As a health scientist I’m sure you’ve already looked at the literature and found that contact tracing for chronic sexually transmitted diseases has not been proven to be of benefit. And as a person living in Indonesia where the epidemic is blood borne you already know that there are no studies of contact tracing for infections caused by using nonsterile injecting equipment. Why are you ambivalent? Where’s your evidence?

  3. Comment by elizabeth, 16/02/08, 04:58:

    It is in part *because* the evidence is not strong (in either direction) that I am ambivalent. But in terms of being able to identify people who may be unaware that they are in need of treatment, and of course in terms of identifying people who are most in need of prevention services, it seems like a sensible step to take. I think the issue remains unresolved. How would you feel if you found out that a doctor knew that you were at direct risk of HIV infection because your regular sex partner was infected, but they had done nothing to alert you to this fact? It’s a genuinely tough one.

  4. Comment by elizabeth, 16/02/08, 05:00:

    PS I guess I could edit the typo out of the title of this post. But I’ll leave the Freudian slip for the amusement of any of my readers who have worked on a part-time basis with UN organisations…

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