New York City health department plans an initiative to give free HIV tests to everyone living in Bronx. This decision comes right on time as yesterday reports came out that New York residents have the highest rate of practicing unsafe sex.
The Bronx HIV free testing project is planned for three years and is aimed at having every single adult person in Bronx tested for HIV, and health department also wants the initiative to be spread through city.
New York City has highest rates of HIV/AIDS with 82 out of 100000 people in Manhattan, 75 in Bronx, 46 in Brooklyn, 26 in Queens, and 16 on Staten Island. Although Manhattan has the highest number of disease cases, Bronx has the highest number of death cases associated with the disease: 37 out of 100000 people in Bronx, 21 in Manhattan, 19 in Brooklyn, 8 on Staten Island, and 6 in Queens.
This is because Bronx residents are poorer and less educated and they usually find out that they are HIV infected in late stages, so it becomes impossible to properly treat the infection, which later develops into AIDS and results in death.
However, during the past few years Bronx has been very successful in HIV testing rates with 40% of residents tested, while only 28% of Manhattan, 24% of Queens, 29% of Brooklyn, and 17% of Staten Island residents have taken HIV tests last year. This means that 500000 out of 830000 Bronx residents still need to take a test, 500 people a day, which is planned for the next 3 years.
About 40 spots - churches, universities, clinics, community centers, emergency rooms - will offer free routine HIV tests for those willing. This means, that whether you are at a clinic for a health condition, or at an emergency room for a broken leg, or at a community center for an advise, you will be offered an HIV test.
Previously, doctors were allowed to test a patient for HIV only with a written permission from a patients, which was taking long time to prepare. Now, patients need just to answer a simple question in a written form: 'Do you want to be tested for HIV?' This will ease the procedure for both doctors and patients and will cut time spent on writing a permission paper for a test.
Comments
#1 THIS SAD
When i learned that my area had the most people with aids.I was up site.I live in the Bronx & i know a lot of young people don't have the right roll models to help them in life. i read what some wrote about the Bronx & that isn't true. my mother spoke to me about sex when i was younger before i started having sex. I'm 24 years old & i have one year daughter. The Bronx has a lot of people that are on drugs & most of them are the once that has HIV. its sad to say that whom every wrote this about the Bronx most have met someone one who is on drugs. Everytime i go to the clinic i take an HIV test & its always neg. i think peoples should talk about sex more often so that the young people could be safe. many people where born with AIDS & they don't know because there parents didn't tell them or they where token away from their parents
#2 America's 24 year olds having sex but can't spell
First, I would like to commend you on speaking out.
I'm proud that you are tested annually but are you practicing safe sex?
It saddened me to see that you are 24 years old and cannot spell properly.
I am not a teacher.
These errors stood out like an injured thumb.
up site? x it should have been "upset"
Roll model? x it should have been "role model"
most of them are the once? x it shoud have been most of them are the "ones"
whom every? x it should have been "whomever"
there parents? x it should have been "their" parents
they where?x it should have been they "were"
token away? x it should have been "taken" away.
Of course there are other grammatical errors.
You don't seem to be aware of when it's appropriate to use the possessive.
e.g. it's instead of its.
The system lists me as being anonymous. My name is Lady Jay.