title: Should HIV be a notifiable disease? Old questions with some new arguments.
abstract: HIV notification enters national debate regularly, often introduced by politicians and supported by many individual healthcare workers. We argue that its proponents advance confused or poorly informed rationales for making HIV notifiable. We present reasons why making HIV notifiable would be inappropriate in South Africa, why the public health benefits of a notification programme are not even likely, and why there are risks of public health and human rights harms.
authors.affiliation: Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (RHI), Johannesburg, South Africa; School of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. fventer@wrhi.ac.za.
authors.forename: W D F
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Venter
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: Lucy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Allias
authors.forename: Marlise
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Richter
mesh_terms: D018563:Disease Notification; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D013019:South Africa / Q000453:epidemiology