Drug availability, funding for drugs, and access to drugs will be no easier if name reporting is required. Furthermore, just because there are treatments doesn't mean that people will choose to take them. This is a coded system that enables identification of the case and not the individual. Identifiers would enable statistics to be collected but would keep the name of the person private. The ACLU has suggested that identifiers remain the most sensible option today.
Opponents say that using unique identifiers to collect data is inaccurate and too expensive.
We need to carefully analyze the potential of a unique identifier system to give us what we need and not assume it cannot be done. We must go with a system that does the least harm while giving us enough solid data. This is a measure that would undermine HIV voluntary partner notification by forcing disclosure. Not only would it make testing a disincentive, it would certainly threaten the safety of women who would never wish to report an abusive partner who had exposed them. I've heard women say they fear disclosure because their partner would 'kill' them.