title: Ethics, research and HIV: lessons learned- a workshop report.
abstract: Assessing risk for transmission of a blood-borne pathogen requires the use of the hazard and risk model. Infection control is a system that uses a number of individual processes to eliminate or reduce the probability of a hazard occurring. Strategies employed to reduce risk should be rehearsed, used routinely, audited, reviewed, and the results shared. Continuing dental education has improved dental healthcare worker willingness to treat people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and has decreased negative attitudes and staff fears. Providing care for PLWHA during undergraduate dental school or dental hygiene programme is also associated with a greater willingness to treat. Whether by identifying suspect oral lesions or offering rapid screening tests in the dental setting for HIV, the dental team can play an important role in linkage to confirmatory diagnosis and care with the goal of reducing to zero the number of undiagnosed cases.
authors: Grady Health System, Atlanta, GA, USA.|Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors: D A
authors: DA
authors: Reznik
authors: Dental Protection (part of MPS Ltd), London, UK.
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Croser
authors: Oral Medicine Residency Program, Faculty of Dentistry Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.
authors: T H
authors: TH
authors: Kadrianto
authors: Department Oral Medicine & Radiology, Panineeya Mahavidyalaya Institute of Dental Science & Research Centre, Hyderabad, India.
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Lavanya
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D017742:Dental Care for Chronically Ill; D003813:Dentistry; D004498:Education, Dental, Continuing; D004990:Ethics, Dental; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D017758:Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016079:Refusal to Treat / Q000941:ethics; D016635:Universal Precautions
keywords: AIDS Oral Health; HIV; HIV screening; PLWHA; dental education; dental treatment; risk control