Annotated Bibliography: Voluntary Counselling and Testing

York, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ref ID: 384
Keywords: adolescents/teenagers/Young people/youth
Abstract: Societies around the world have great difficulty promoting and protecting the health of
young people (which we will consider here as 13 - 24 years old) against HIV infection as well as
other hazards. Yet the HIV/AIDS pandemic will have a growing impact on their health and their
lives.
It is appropriate to focus on young people as they fall between children and adults, two well-
established demographic and social categories. Children are generally considered to be in need
of protection against HIV, to which they may be exposed through their relation to and the actions
of others: through HIV-infected mothers, unsterile medical injections, contaminated blood
products, or sexual abuse by adults. In contrast, adults are assumed to be capable of protecting
themselves; they are seen as independent and autonomous, as making informed choices and
using appropriate health and social services. Within this framework, the concept of childhood
virtually denies personal choice or preference, while personal responsibility for actions and
outcomes is the defining principle of adulthood.
Notes: 1 copy
Ref ID: 437
AIDS home test on trial (1996). AIDS Bulletin, 5, 25.
Keywords: counsellor/counsellors/pre-test
Abstract: The US food and Drug Administration recently approved the first-ever AIDS home test
kit. The product, known as Confide was developed by Direct Access Diagnostics, a Johnson and
Johnson Company in conjunction with Chiron Corporation. The product will initially only be
available in Texas and Florida. The kits contain pre-test counselling booklets about HIV/AIDS.
The person takes a finger stick blood sample and places it on a designated area on a test card
that is precoded with a unique identification number. The card is then mailed to a laboratory for
testing. A week later the results can be obtained by calling a toll-free number. If the result is
positive, certified counsellors are connected to the caller directly. Negative results are provided
8