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HIV testing: shouldn't it be easier to check for the virus?
Sep 26th of 2006 Opinions Sexual & Reproductive
In case you didn't know, as a physician you cannot just checkmark the box next to HIV test on a lab order sheet for your patient. You have to administer a separate consent form to your patients asking for their explicit permission to perform an HIV test. Considering we are now 25 years into the epidemic, 100 million lives affected, is this practice really helpful?

HIV origin discovered - Again
May 29th of 2006 Opinions Immunology
Scientists now believe they know for a fact where the HIV virus came from and how it was transmitted to humans - a revival of an already accepted theory. But what good does this do?


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