A systematic review and comparison of HIV contact tracing laws in Canada

Lunny, Carole; Shearer, Brenna

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.07.011

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“…Partner notification (PN) of people infected with HIV is considered a key strategy for promoting diagnosis and early treatment, thereby reducing HIV transmission at the community level [ 3 ]. It also presents the possibility of offering preventive treatment to people assessed in the first hours after exposure [ 4 ], as well as allowing exposed individuals to exercise their right to know their risk [ 5 , 6 ]. These interventions have been shown to be cost-effective, and are widely accepted by the beneficiaries of these programs [ 7 ].…”

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Effectiveness of a Pilot Partner Notification Program for New HIV Cases in Barcelona, Spain

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BackgroundAn estimated 30% of HIV cases in the European Union are not aware of their serological status. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of a pilot HIV partner notification program.MethodsHIV cases diagnosed between January 2012 and June 2013 at two healthcare settings in Barcelona were invited to participate in a prospective survey. We identified process and outcome measures to evaluate this partner notification program, including the number of partners identified per interviewed index case, the proportion of partners tested for HIV as a result of the partner notification, and the proportion of new HIV diagnoses among their sex or needle-sharing partners.ResultsOf the 125 index cases contacted, 108 (86.4%) agreed to provide information about partners. A total of 199 sexual partners were identified (1.8 partners per interviewed index case). HIV outcome was already known for 58 partners (70.7% were known to be HIV-positive), 141 partners were tested as result of partner notification, and 26 were newly diagnosed with HIV. The case-finding effectiveness of the program was 18.4%.ConclusionThis pilot program provides evidence of the effectiveness of a partner notification program implemented in healthcare settings. This active partner notification program was feasible, acceptable to the user, and identified a high proportion of HIV-infected patients previously unaware of their status.

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Effectiveness of a Pilot Partner Notification Program for New HIV Cases in Barcelona, Spain

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“…Although the encounter might vary in length and content detail, sessions are structured by organizational guidelines that mandate discussion of basic healthy living and risk-reduction information. The encounter includes eliciting information about sex partners so that partner notification services can be performed (Lunny & Shearer, 2011). Most recently, counseling has come to include detailed information about the person’s criminal law obligation to disclose HIV status prior to engaging in activity that poses a “realistic possibility” of viral transmission as per the criminal law (see R. v. Mabior [2012]), and the legal consequences of HIV nondisclosure.…”

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When Health Care is Displaced by State Interests: Building Dialogue Through Shared Findings

Sanders

Bisaillon

2018

Qual Health Res

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Health sociologists interested in how macro state influences affect micro health care practices have much to gain from meta-ethnography research. In this article, we bring together insights from two separate empirical studies on state health care services involving HIV/AIDS as a way to speak to larger issues about the organization and production of medical expertise and governance in health care systems. We use Noblit and Hare’s meta-ethnography approach to bring these studies into conversation and identify six shared “organizers” of health care encounters. The organizers illustrate how state health interests operate across institutional contexts and impact the work of providers in seemingly unrelated health care settings. On the basis of this synthesis, we conclude that state interests both structure and create conflict in health care settings. We believe this perspective offers the potential to advance the goals of health sociology and the field of qualitative health research in general.

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“…Contact tracing of infectious disease aims to find persons that the confirmed patient came into close contact with and give recommendations of isolating from others and monitoring symptoms. In HIV contact tracing, health department officers visit the newly infected person, making an inquiry about his/her past sexual and needle-sharing contacts [ 13 ]. Similarly, the standard practice in the application of contact tracing in tuberculosis (TB) is to assess the exposure of pulmonary TB patients to identify and treat the active or latent TB infection (LTBI) [ 14 ].…”

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Contact Tracing Research: A Literature Review Based on Scientific Collaboration Network

Zhu

Niu³

2022

IJERPH

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Contact tracing is a monitoring process including contact identification, listing, and follow-up, which is a key to slowing down pandemics of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19. In this study, we use the scientific collaboration network technique to explore the evolving history and scientific collaboration patterns of contact tracing. It is observed that the number of articles on the subject remained at a low level before 2020, probably because the practical significance of the contact tracing model was not widely accepted by the academic community. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented research boom to contact tracing, as evidenced by the explosion of the literature after 2020. Tuberculosis, HIV, and other sexually transmitted diseases were common types of diseases studied in contact tracing before 2020. In contrast, research on contact tracing regarding COVID-19 occupies a significantly large proportion after 2000. It is also found from the collaboration networks that academic teams in the field tend to conduct independent research, rather than cross-team collaboration, which is not conducive to knowledge dissemination and information flow.

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A systematic review and comparison of HIV contact tracing laws in Canada

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Effectiveness of a Pilot Partner Notification Program for New HIV Cases in Barcelona, Spain

Effectiveness of a Pilot Partner Notification Program for New HIV Cases in Barcelona, Spain

When Health Care is Displaced by State Interests: Building Dialogue Through Shared Findings

Contact Tracing Research: A Literature Review Based on Scientific Collaboration Network

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