{"id":1020,"date":"2012-06-21T19:58:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2012-06-21T19:58:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:58:27","slug":"report-examines-role-of-hiv-partner-notification-and-online-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/06\/report-examines-role-of-hiv-partner-notification-and-online-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Report examines role of HIV partner notification and online technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National AIDS Trust has launched a new report on the role of partner notification after diagnosis with HIV in the drive to increase HIV testing and early diagnoses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nat.org.uk\/media\/Files\/Policy\/2012\/May-2012-HIV-Partner-Notification.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018HIV Partner Notification: a missed opportunity?\u2019<\/a> examines the process of contacting sexual partners of an individual diagnosed with an STI, including HIV, and advising them they\u2019ve been exposed to infection and encouraging them to get tested.<\/p>\n<p>The charity said some audits show up to 37% of partners traced and tested through partner notification were newly diagnosed HIV positive as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Believing that partner notification has not kept apace with new technology, NAT recommended:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sexual health clinics should use online technology such as messaging via gay dating websites and smart-phone apps within their partner notification processes.<\/li>\n<li>Clear national standards for HIV partner notification should be introduced, including HIV-specific guidance for healthcare workers (as is done for other STIs such as chlamydia).<\/li>\n<li>Clinics should be properly commissioned and resourced to do high quality partner notification and should look to incorporate further support for patients around HIV disclosure.<\/li>\n<li>Communities most at risk of HIV such as gay men and African communities should be told about the benefits of partner notification.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/05\/31\/report-examines-role-of-hiv-partner-notification-and-online-technology\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29\">Read More\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/06\/KeyboardCREDMichaelMaggs.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1021\" title=\"KeyboardCREDMichaelMaggs\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/06\/KeyboardCREDMichaelMaggs.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KeyboardCREDMichaelMaggs.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KeyboardCREDMichaelMaggs.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/KeyboardCREDMichaelMaggs.jpg?resize=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National AIDS Trust has launched a new report on the role of partner notification after diagnosis with HIV in the drive to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-humor","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}