With coronavirus, most people “would like to know their status” but can’t, “because there aren't many tests available, and even those that exist are complicated, uncomfortable, and not 100 percent reliable,” added the UNAIDS adviser.
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“Those consequences - plus the lack of effective treatment at the time - made many have second thoughts about knowing their status.”
"The stigmatization that existed in the early days of the HIV crisis created a movement against testing, because a positive test could affect one's access to life insurance, the possibility to buy a house, etc.,” said Godfrey-Faussett. The biggest factor that slowed testing and treatment at the start of the HIV crisis is fortunately not something that is likely to hamper efforts to manage the current coronavirus outbreak. Like the early HIV tests, coronavirus tests have to be processed in centralized laboratories, meaning people have to wait several days to receive results.īut experts are hopeful that as better versions are developed, these tests could become useful in many of the same ways that the Western blot test - which separates blood proteins and detects HIV antibodies, indicating infection - was in the fight against the AIDS epidemic. "The stigmatization that existed in the early days of the HIV crisis created a movement against testing" - Peter Godfrey-Faussett, UNAIDS senior science adviserĪs was the case with early efforts to diagnose HIV cases, the complexity and cost of developing accurate tests that are also widely available are proving to be a “significant obstacle,” said Godfrey-Faussett. I can see easier tests becoming very useful as we begin to come out of the lockdown period."
“People without symptoms aren't as infectious, but it is clear that they can still infect others.
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