HIV Partner Notification Health, Medicine, Nursing Coursework (Coursework Sample)

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HIV Client Partner Notification
This is a voluntary process offered by health workers to the sexual partners of a HIV positive client. It’s provided through passive or assisted approaches with the consent of the patient/client (Hershow 34). This is done with aim of increasing the uptake of HIV testing and treatment among a group of people especially those related to HIV patients either sexually or through use drug injecting substances.
HIV Partner notification has a host of advantages. One of these being that it help the health officials and practitioners in the management of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) through effective diagnosis and treatment (Dalai 20). It has also contributed in the curbing of recurrent infections among others.
This standard procedure has positive effects on the incidence and prevalence rates of HIV among a population. It increases the uptake of HIV testing among individuals and sexual partners to HIV patients thus enabling individuals and health authorities to establish the HIV prevalence data and statistics among a population (Wang 375). Through this process, a number of care and linkage would be recommended to those who shall have tested HIV positive. It also provide more information to health researchers on the on how HIV spreads among a population and possible remedies to help curb and mitigate on the spread of the disease. This method therefore facilitates linkage to preventing the spread of further infections, treatment and care to HIV/AIDS patients.