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─ Area: AIDS-HIV - R ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Msg#: 496 Date: 01-08-93 04:43
From: Billi Goldberg Read: Yes Replied: No
To: All Mark:
Subj: (1) CDC SUMMARY 1/6/93 1
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-=> Quoting Billi Goldberg to All <=-
BG> Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
BG> Subject: CDC Summary 1/6/93
BG> Message-ID: <1993Jan6.155652.4903@cs.ucla.edu>
BG> From: Billi Goldberg <bigoldberg@igc.apc.org>
BG> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 07:44:40 PST
BG> Sender: usenet@cs.ucla.edu (Mr Usenet)
BG> Organization: unspecified
BG> Approved: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
BG> Note: Copyright 1992, Dan R. Greening. Non-commercial reproduction
BG> allowed. Nntp-Posting-Host: sole.cs.ucla.edu
BG> Archive-Number: 6721
BG> Lines: 239
BG> AIDS Daily Summary
BG> January 6, 1993
BG> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National AIDS
BG> Clearinghouse makes available the following information as a public
BG> service only. Providing this information does not constitute
BG> endorsement by the CDC, the CDC Clearinghouse, or any other
BG> organization. Reproduction of this text is encouraged; however,
BG> copies may not be sold. Copyright 1992, Information, Inc., Bethesda,
BG> MD
BG> "New Definition for AIDS Arrives, Bringing New Concerns" New York
BG> Times (01/06/93), P. B3 (Navarro, Mireya)
BG> The new federal definition of AIDS is prompting New York health
BG> officials and AIDS advocates to debate over how to guarantee not only
BG> an accurate count of new AIDS cases, but also confidentiality and
BG> timely medical treatment for infected patients. The new definition,
BG> which went into effect New Year's Day, is expected to almost double
BG> the number of new cases reported nationwide this year and provide a
BG> better means for health officials to track the epidemic. However,
BG> AIDS advocates are concerned the way in which the city and state keep
BG> track of those AIDS cases might prevent some infected individuals
BG> from obtaining treatment. These advocates worry that current
BG> proposals will endanger the confidentiality of patients and
BG> discourage them from seeking care. State health department officials
BG> claim that they are developing regulations to establish a new
BG> reporting system and that they do not expect to implement any changes
BG> until at least next month. State and city officials are calling for
BG> laboratories that test blood to identify new cases, instead of
BG> relying on hospitals and doctors as they have done in the past,
BG> because these tend to be less thorough. Mark Barnes of the New York
BG> City Department of Health said that the current system, in which
BG> health care facilities and doctors report AIDS cases to health
BG> departments, which then report them to the Centers for Disease
BG> Control, misses about 17 percent of actual cases. This indicates
BG> that the city is losing federal money for AIDS that is allocated on
BG> the basis of need. Officials insist that the new method will not
BG> bypass doctors, who are still needed to confirm that patients
BG> (continued) -!-
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