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**Hujkmlopes** · 06-19-2010, 11:39 AM

Trog, why are you using the term "Sub Saharan Africa" as a catch all descriptor for this epidemic? Lesotho's prevalence rate is 28% Somalia's is 0.5% Do you think it's fair to the NHS that you use the term "SSA" when Lesotho's prevalence rates is 60 times greater than Somalia's?

Screening a Somali as much as a citizen of Lesotho? Don't you think you're not going to be getting a clear, cost effective picture while using SSA as your screening criteria when basically a quarter of people from Lesotho are HIV positive, while the same amount of Somalis as Italians are HIV positive?

I'm using it because the sources for the data I provided are using it.

http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCe...09/default.asp

You see?

southern and South Africa are included in the Sub-saharan data:

Somalian rates are suspect, the country doesn't even have a government, how can any figure from there be considered realistic? Africans also travel a lot, so a Somalian could find refuge in neighbouring areas and be HIV. But the recorded case will be for the region they died in. And many African refugees don't even have passports. That's far too much red tape. Just test them all, for it benefits them too, given the fact they get a free AIDS/HIV test.

06-19-2010, 11:39 AM	#24
Hujkmlopes Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 431 Senior Member	Trog, why are you using the term "Sub Saharan Africa" as a catch all descriptor for this epidemic? Lesotho's prevalence rate is 28% Somalia's is 0.5% Do you think it's fair to the NHS that you use the term "SSA" when Lesotho's prevalence rates is 60 times greater than Somalia's? Screening a Somali as much as a citizen of Lesotho? Don't you think you're not going to be getting a clear, cost effective picture while using SSA as your screening criteria when basically a quarter of people from Lesotho are HIV positive, while the same amount of Somalis as Italians are HIV positive? I'm using it because the sources for the data I provided are using it. http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCe...09/default.asp You see? southern and South Africa are included in the Sub-saharan data: Somalian rates are suspect, the country doesn't even have a government, how can any figure from there be considered realistic? Africans also travel a lot, so a Somalian could find refuge in neighbouring areas and be HIV. But the recorded case will be for the region they died in. And many African refugees don't even have passports. That's far too much red tape. Just test them all, for it benefits them too, given the fact they get a free AIDS/HIV test.
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