Doctors and nurses were allowed to treat people with HIV

While Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov calls to bury and burn body gay, citing the experience of the "Western" power Britain lifts ban on work with HIV-infected physicians, dentists and other health professionals. The ban remained for more than 20 years.

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Medical staff the public health system in Britain, which has HIV infection , Is now able to return to their professional duties. For example, HIV-infected   surgeons can perform operations. Earlier, there were fears that they could accidentally infect the patient, and for that same reason, lost their jobs dentists with HIV.

Lifting of the ban was made possible not because the government has agreed to subject patients to unnecessary risk. Current therapies HIV infection   allow to reduce the viral load in the blood to undetectable levels at which the probability of infection is practically zero. Therefore, these people do not pose a risk to the uninfected.

From now on, medical specialists will regularly enough to present a certificate of viral load, and it will allow them to continue to do their work after the passage of a special three-month observation period. All of these checks will be held strictly confidential. According to the head of the medical service of England Professor Sally Davies, this change will put the UK health care system on a par with other more advanced Western systems.

By the way, the government decided to legalize home HIV tests, which until recently were considered illegal in Britain. Starting next year, they can be used by anyone. (READ MORE)

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