Interesting news item. Health care professionals with HIV are going to be allowed to conduct the full range of procedures following the lifting of an outdated ban. From the article -

It is more likely that somebody will be struck by lightning than be infected with HIV by their doctor or dentist, said chief medical officer Dame Sally Davies as she announced the change of policy.

HIV levels in the blood of those on modern combination drug therapy are too low for the virus to be transmissible. There are only four known examples of a healthcare worker infecting a patient, none of them in the UK, and in every case, the doctor or dentist was not on drug treatment.

So, even our chief medical officer is more relaxed about the HIV 'epidemic' than some of our posters. I somehow doubt that she condones compulsory testing.

Full story here.

Cheers

DtG