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Most people do not immediately go for comprehensive testing the moment they feel worse for a little bit. And most doctors that see flu-like symptoms will assume
by lmilcin 5y ago
Most people do not immediately go for comprehensive testing the moment they feel worse for a little bit. And most doctors that see flu-like symptoms will assume you have a flu.
The reality is that almost every person diagnosed with HIV is diagnosed because:
1) They developed full blown AIDS
2) They got contacted by somebody who just discovered they have HIV/AIDS to get checked
3) They went through some routine unrelated test (for example they wanted to give blood)
- dnautics 5y agoRoutine full panel std checks when you have a new partner or if you have an accident like say when visiting a sex worker are a thing, enough that you can order one at a bulk lab diagnostics service for relatively little (it's still expensive but not prohibitively so, and some nonprofits offer them for free)
- lmilcin 5y agoPeople are offered life saving vaccines for free and still don't take it. I don't want to throw completely baseless statistics, but I would guess over 95% of the world either a) does not have access to that kind of thing, or b) has other priorities, financially, or c) does not care about this because they are either not informed or they know this exists but is not important enough for them to actually do it. And if you are from US remember, western countries where these things are easily available and people can generally afford it are only small percentage of the world's population.
- dnautics 5y agoOp was about circulation in Europe, where I am guessing they have these things. And if people are not doing it enough in western nations where we do have access, then my posting this serves to increase awareness in this small hn community.