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...want to be pushing students into asystem that we don't know much about," saidFrazier. "Our worst fear is that people will goand get tested anonymously else where, but notreceive accurate results or proper pre-test andposttest counseling...
This summer a 44-year-old Baltimore native named Jack was waiting to have the first of at least three pre-test counseling sessions, spaced over a two-month period. Jack had already cleared the neurological exam that, if it had turned up HD symptoms, would have made testing redundant. Though Jack is healthy, he was well versed in the disease: his grandmother and mother died from it, and he knows there is a fifty-fifty chance that he has inherited the time-bomb gene. Two siblings have tested negative, two others positive. One sister is battling symptoms, including...
Since the start of the program, anonymous testing sessions at UHS have been fully booked, and pre-test counseling appointments have spilled into January, says Carie Ullman Michael, assistant director for clinical operations...
When a student arrives at the fifth floor testing site, the counselor, a specialist from Cambridge City Hospital, takes him to a private room where she conducts the pre-test counseling. She conducts a standard questionnaire of risk assessment, asking questions like: Why do you want to be tested for HIV? Have you ever used intravenous drugs? Have you ever had anal...
...drug has also been tried informally on Brandeis students, but without significant results, according to Faigel. He explained that the drug only works for students who experience extreme anxiety, not for those who simply get a common case of pre-test butterflies...