Name reporting of persons with infectious disease can benefit the individual person. It could enable health officials to find and counsel people who test positive, but do not return for their results or who are tested in venues that do not provide extensive educational opportunities. Such contacts could also lead to medical referrals and earlier viral loads and CD4 testing, resulting in more timely treatment and reductions in viral loads that could not only improve …showed first 75 words of 319 total…

…showed last 75 words of 319 total…sufficient resources and effective vaccines or cures, reporting infected individuals by name can be used to help control endemic diseases. In conclusion, name reporting of persons with infectious diseases has the potential to benefit both individual and public health, for all the above reasons stated. Keep in mind that thousand of names have already been revealed, however unfortunately on the AIDS quilt because by then it is too late to save that life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**