Before You Learn HIV Infection

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Before you lear nefore you le ar nHIV Infec ti onI V I nfec ti on

Professor Sudheer KherProfessor Sudheer Kher


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HI V I NF EC TI ONI V I NF EC TI ONTh y n ame i sh y n ame i scontroversy!ontroversy!


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Qu estio n No . 1u estio n No . 1 Should HIV test be mandatoryShould HIV test be mandatory

for all the patients coming tofor all the patients coming tohospitals?hospitals?


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Qu estio n No . 2u estio n No . 2 Should HIV testing be madeShould HIV testing be made

mandatory before marriage?mandatory before marriage? And what about Blood GroupAnd what about Blood Group

matching / horoscopematching / horoscope

matching before marriage?matching before marriage?


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Qu estio n No . 3u estio n No . 3 Is it mandatory for the hospitals carryingIs it mandatory for the hospitals carrying

out HIV test to inform the positive resultout HIV test to inform the positive result

to the spouse / sexual partner?to the spouse / sexual partner? If yes in which form?If yes in which form?

By telephone?By telephone?

By registered post?By registered post? By news paper advertisement?By news paper advertisement?


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Qu estio n No . 4u estio n No . 4 Should there be a lawShould there be a law

prohibiting marriage of HIVprohibiting marriage of HIVpositive people?positive people?


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Qu estio n No . 5u estio n No . 5 Should it mandatory for HIVShould it mandatory for HIV

positive pregnant women topositive pregnant women toundergo termination ofundergo termination of

pregnancy?pregnancy?


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Qu estio n No . 6u estio n No . 6 Can HIV positive couple haveCan HIV positive couple have

sexual relation?sexual relation?


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Qu estio n No . 7u estio n No . 7 Can HIV positive blood beCan HIV positive blood be

transfused in an emergencytransfused in an emergencysituation?situation?


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Qu estio n No . 9u estio n No . 9 Should it be mandatory forShould it be mandatory for

hospitals to take informedhospitals to take informedwritten consent of the patientswritten consent of the patients

before carrying out the HIVbefore carrying out the HIV

test?test?


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Qu estio n No . 1 0u estio n No . 1 0 Who should carry out theWho should carry out the

counseling in the hospitalcounseling in the hospitalsetting?setting?


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Qu estio n No . 1 1u estio n No . 1 1 Should HIV positive status ofShould HIV positive status of

a blood donor be informed toa blood donor be informed tohis/her spouse / sexualhis/her spouse / sexual

partner?partner?


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Th e in evit able debateh e in evit able debateonn

Public healthPublic healthVersusVersus

Individual rightsIndividual rights


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CONTROVERSY

Dr. Kary Mullis, Biochemist, 1993 Nobel Prize for Chemistry:

"If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific documents which either singly

or collectively demonstrate that fact, at least with a high probability. There is no such document."(Sunday Times (London) 28 nov. 1993)

Dr. Heinz Ludwig Snger, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology andVirology, Max-Planck-Institutes for Biochemy, Mnchen. Robert Koch Award

1978:"Up to today there is actually no single scientifically really convincing evidence for the existence of

HIV. Not even once such a retrovirus has been isolated and purified by the methods of classical

virology." (Letter to Sddeutsche Zeitung 2000)

Dr. Serge Lang, Professor of Mathematics, Yale University:"I do not regard the causal relationship between HIV and any disease as settled. I have seen

considerable evidence that highly improper statistics concerning HIV and AIDS have been passed

off as science, and that top members of the scientific establishment have carelessly, if not

irresponsible, joined the media in spreading misinformation about the nature of AIDS."(Yale Scientific, Fall 1994)

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Before You Learn HIV Infection