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Hopeful · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 49

if woman is HIV +ve and partner is -ve.

is it our legal responsibility to encourage woman to tell her partner & if the woman does not tell her partner, do we need to tell the partner?

rpwalavalkar · Teale Fenning Administrator Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 946

hopeful,

have shifted this to open forum, as it is a query and not a osce question.

regards
raj
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Nick Raine-Fenning · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: HIV

Good question Hopeful ...

If woman is HIV +ve and partner is -ve.

1. is it our legal responsibility to encourage woman to tell her partner

Regardless of the legality of the situation it is something you must do - encourage that is

2. if the woman does not tell her partner, do we need to tell the partner.

I do not think you are allowed to but am not sure??? Excellent question. I gues the same applies to Hepatitis and other communicable diseases.

farha · Century Club Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 144

Well I don,t think so that there is much confusion in answering that if we follow wording of guideline on HIV ( green top)

[b][quote]The issue of disclosure of theHIV diagnosis to her partner should be handled with sensitivity.The woman’s HIV diagnosis may be disclosed to a known sexual contact,in order to protect him from acquiring infection, where the woman has not informed him and cannot be persuaded to do so.The woman must be told of the disclosure and the clinician must be prepared to justifyit. [/quote][/b]

so it is obvious that we must tell her partner with proper justification and justification has already been given in wordings of guideline