anonymous testing

anonymous testing

The testing of a person for certain infections, in particular HIV, and providing the results to public health departments without identifying the testee by name, only by a number.

anonymous testing

Public health The testing of an individual for certain infections, in particular, HIV, providing the results to public health departments without identifying that person by name, but rather by a number. Cf Named reporting.

anonymous testing

Confidential testing for the presence of a disease or condition, e.g., for hepatitis or pregnancy.
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Central, Wichita, (316) 262-3611, FREE HIV confidential or anonymous testing with Spanish and Vietnamese interpreters.
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7 deadly sins; Many of us are now skipping tests that could flag up serious illness. It's a decision that could prove fatal. Caroline Jones reports
In these Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) Centres, people can have access to anonymous testing and the result is produced in a few minutes, said Dr Mohamed Redha Moosa Al Lawati, head of National TB, AIDS and Leprosy Control Programmes at the Ministry of Health.
High-risk groups in Oman encouraged to take anonymous HIV detection tests
I consider the noncompliance of many physicians and the availability of anonymous testing as alternatives to the codified deferral program.
Reducing the risk of domestic violence against HIV-positive women: the application and efficacy of New York's partner notification deferral mandate
Other social services such as APS 34 (Prevention Association Specialized), the CIDAG (Centre for Information and anonymous testing and free), DEF (Directorate Childhood Family), the MDPH (Departmental Home for Disabled Persons) and UTAG (Territorial Unit of action Gerontological) integrate this building to present, on a single site, a House of Solidarity.
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Notably, while the availability of anonymous testing is thought to promote testing at the individual level among members of specific at-risk groups (e.
Individual and jurisdictional factors associated with voluntary HIV testing in Canada: results of a national survey, 2011
A total of 431 individuals attending a centre for anonymous testing for HIV, run by a non-governmental organisation, the Instituto Portugues de Medicina Preventiva, consented to be included in the study.
Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis C virus, hepatitis B virus and syphilis among individuals attending anonymous testing for HIV in Luanda, Angola
For anonymous testing to work, you presume the adolescent is going to be mature enough to take action on the basis of a test result.
Make HIV tests routine for teens
The campaign, which in Lebanon stars a former beauty queen and wildly popular band Mashrou3 Leila, also supplies a list of free and anonymous testing centers for both countries.
'Secretive' Arab world faces HIV epidemic, experts warn
The methodology of unlinked anonymous testing (UAT) practiced in India for ANC surveillance does not require informed consent for HIV testing.
Transitioning from HIV sentinel surveillance to programme based surveillance
Some states require that the patient be advised of the alternative (usually through a public-health department) of anonymous testing.
HIV testing in mental-health settings
A group of public health, ethics, bioethics and education, nursing, and medical practitioners and academics from the UK, Chile, and Canada discuss the concept of public health ethics, frameworks, and debates about it; ethical issues such as resistant tuberculosis, health promotion and smoking, obesity, community ethics in Chile, the retention of tissue or blood from anonymous testing, and vaccinations; and bridging theory and practice.
Public health ethics and practice

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