Testing should be available through a range of facilities, including appropriately trained health workers, community practitioners, teaching hospitals and specialised clinics. 11.4.3 Compulsory testing is opposed in principle. Appropriate counselling to facilitate testing those at risk of contracting or transmitting HIV is preferred. The aim of testing for HIV is for the individual's knowledge of the status. Screening for HIV should only be performed when blood or tissue donation is being contemplated.
Informed consent is still essential.
It should involve care of HIV-related illness, and other illnesses. Partners, friends and family need education and care. General practitioners are ideally suited to provide whole-person care and should be equal partners in the health care team. The most appropriate care in most cases of terminal illness is community-based home care or hospice care. Adequate resources must be available to enable this to occur.