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The following is a public service announcement:

Know your rights: You have a right to informed consent, a right to read and review all critical literature on a medical procedure before agreeing to undergo it.

Know your rights: You have a right to read and review all critical literature on Hiv testing, before submitting to a test. You have a right to choose whether or not to take a test, based on your reading of the critical medical literature on testing. It is your legal right:

• To review all critical literature on the tests and on testing.
• To take or to not take a test.

Before you test, seek answers to the following questions:

• How are the tests constructed? How do they work? What do they measure?
• What are the specific mechanical components of the tests? Where are the parts made? Where do they come from?
• What makes a test react? What makes a reaction positive or negative?
• What is the difference between a positive and a negative reaction?
• What standards are used to interpret a reaction?
• What other factors are used to determine the meaning or interpretation of a test result?
• Do the tests measure only one thing? Do they measure what they claim to measure? Do they cross-react, and if so, with what? Why do they cross-react?
• Who are the tests used on? Where are they issued most often? What gives a test a higher versus a lower “predictive value“?

Excercise your right to informed consent, and make the decision according to a full understanding of the tests, their limitations and uses, as reviewed in twenty-five years of the medical literature.

More on testing below, and at ARAS.ab.ca/test

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• The Hidden Face of HIV Part 1 – Knowing Is Beautiful
• The Hidden Face of HIV Part 2 – Sex Crimes

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• Abbott Labs 2006 HIV Test
• Africa, Malthus and Eugenics
• Aids Counseling for Low-Risk Clients
• Bareback Jack (Nicholson) Sets Me Straight on Sex
• CDC instruction/quiz for HIV test interpretation
• Cows, Goats, Babies Test Hiv-Positive
• Disease Stigma: AIDS, Inc’s Useful Idiots
• Dogs Test HIV-Positive
• Estimates on HIV called too high – New data cut rates for many nations – Boston Globe June 2004
• False Positives Among Hispanic Women
• False Positive HIV Tests in Pregnant Women
• False Positives – HIV Screening In Russia
• Flu Vaccine Causes HIV Positivity
• Four Papers on Aids that Make You Say, WTF?!
• HIGH FREQUENCY OF FALSE POSITIVE RESULTS IN HIV SCREENING IN BLOOD BANKS
• HIV ELISA Test – Vironostika
• HIV Interpretation Presentation – Australia
• HIV Test Interpretation Strategy Paper
• Hiv Testing is Dangerous to Your Health
• HIV-Negative Mice Test HIV Positive
• Max Planck Institute - HIV Testing for Low-Risk Clients
• OraQuick Rapid HIV Test Label
• Rapid Tests – 1,000 White Suburban Housewives Can’t Be HIV Positive*
• Reductionism On Trial: Liam Scheff Answers Mainstream AIDS History Researcher
• Report of a False-Positive HIV Test Result
• Reveal Rapid Test
• UK HIV Test Guidelines – Official
• Vaccine Blues – The Aids Crusade Moves On
• Voltaire And The Scientists
• Will the Real ‘Hiv Test’ Please Stand Up
• What Nancy Padian Knows About Sex

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Lo siguiente es un anuncio público:

Conoce tus derechos. Antes de someterte al test: Tienes derecho al consentimiento informado y el derecho a conocer todas las críticas al procedimiento médico publicadas en la literatura científica.

Conoce tus derechos: antes de someterte al test de VIH tienes el derecho a acceder a toda la literatura científica que critica el procedimiento.

Una vez que hayas leído las críticas publicadas, puedes elegir si quieres o no hacerte los tests del VIH. Es tu derecho legal:

• El acceso a la literatura científica que critica las pruebas del VIH.
• Hacerte o no los tests.

Antes de hacerte las pruebas, busca respuesta a las siguientes preguntas:

• ¿En qué consisten los tests? ¿Cómo funcionan? ¿Qué detectan exactamente?
• ¿Cuáles son los componentes mecánicos específicos de estos tests? ¿Dónde se fabrican los componentes? ¿De dónde proceden?

• ¿Qué es lo que hace reaccionar los tests? ¿Qué es lo que produce una reacción positiva o negativa?
• ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre una reacción positiva y otra negativa?
• ¿Qué parámetros se siguen para interpretar una reacción?
• ¿Qué otros factores se tienen en cuenta para determinar el sentido y la interpretación de los resultados de los tests?
• Estos tests, ¿miden un sólo elemento?, ¿miden lo que afirman medir?, ¿pueden producirse reacciones cruzadas y, si es así, con qué? ¿Por qué se producen las reacciones cruzadas?
• ¿A quién le hacen los tests del VIH? ¿Dónde son utilizados más a menudo? ¿Qué le da a un test un mayor o menor valor predictivo?

Ejercita tu derecho al consentimiento informado y decide tras entender completamente el funcionamiento de estas pruebas, sus usos y limitaciones, información que puedes encontrar en veinticinco años de literatura médica.

MÁS INFORMACIÓN SOBRE LOS TESTS: ARAS.ab.ca/test

Some warnings from the medical literature on testing:

Arbitrary Cutoff	Aussie Interpretation	‘clinicaldiagnosis-only	Pos-Neg Mice	No Standard Unapproved
Orasure Rapid limitations	Reveal Rapid Limitations	Sex Pos but Neg	Sex pos, neg, no standard	Two Pos but Negative
worms and viral load	pos-neg-china	rapidtest too many positives	pcr false-pos no diagnosis	pcr no diagnosis
wb errorrate unkown	unknown wb error rate	refusing is reasonable	predictive value varies	predictive value varies 2
abbott-sensitivity	abbott vaccine study	abbott top page	abbott-interpretation	abbott gay men
abbott clinical-only	‘abbott-bovine	abbott-bibliography	abbott-biblio2	carefully-selected to minimize-false-pos
cdc instructions 1	cdc arbitrary cutoff	cdc blood bank director	cdc drug counselor	cdc overlap graph
cdc calculate ppv	cdc ppv - pnv	clinical-aids no-hiv	dingel-pop cdna-probes	dingel-pop dateline cdna/elisa
italian-reg - AZT	‘italianreg - AZT 2	lancet-haart grade 4	lancet haartgrade4 title	rodriguez PCR no correlation
rodriguez PCR no correlation2	UK guidelines 1	UK guidelines 2	UK guidelines 3	Swaziland girls - UN redacted
Swaziland girls - UN redacted 2	50 percent	False Positives	Suicides	Same test, different meaning
Saving lives	Cows, Goats, Babies	Cows, Goats, Babies 2	Cows - False results	Cow - Heterophile antibodies