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Before you learn HIV Infection

Before you learn HIV Infection. Professor Sudheer Kher. HIV INFECTION Thy name is controversy!. Question No. 1. Should HIV test be mandatory for all the patients coming to hospitals?. Question No. 2. Should HIV testing be made mandatory before marriage?

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Before you learn HIV Infection

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  1. Before you learn HIV Infection Professor Sudheer Kher

  2. HIV INFECTIONThy name is controversy!

  3. Question No. 1 • Should HIV test be mandatory for all the patients coming to hospitals?

  4. Question No. 2 • Should HIV testing be made mandatory before marriage? • And what about Blood Group matching / horoscope matching before marriage?

  5. Question No. 3 • Is it mandatory for the hospitals carrying out HIV test to inform the positive result to the spouse / sexual partner? • If yes in which form? • By telephone? • By registered post? • By news paper advertisement?

  6. Question No. 4 • Should there be a law prohibiting marriage of HIV positive people?

  7. Question No. 5 • Should it mandatory for HIV positive pregnant women to undergo termination of pregnancy?

  8. Question No. 6 • Can HIV positive couple have sexual relation?

  9. Question No. 7 • Can HIV positive blood be transfused in an emergency situation?

  10. Question No. 8 • Can HIV blood be transfused to another HIV positive patient?

  11. Question No. 9 • Should it be mandatory for hospitals to take informed written consent of the patients before carrying out the HIV test?

  12. Question No. 10 • Who should carry out the counseling in the hospital setting?

  13. Question No. 11 • Should HIV positive status of a blood donor be informed to his/her spouse / sexual partner?

  14. The inevitable debate on Public health Versus Individual rights

  15. 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 Sänger, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Biology and Virology, Max-Planck-Institutes for Biochemy, München. 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 Süddeutsche 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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